Towards Unmanned Systems for Dismounted Operations in the Canadian Forces

Abstract

Unmanned systems are designed to reduce risk and magnify the impact of manned forces. Expanding unmanned involvement in military operations will require greater vehicle autonomy and the adoption of new concepts of operations. This paper discusses the technical challenges of unmanned systems in support of dismounted operations and research efforts by Defence R&D Canada to support unmanned vehicles in this role. New projects have been formulated to address these technical challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA586879

Entities

People

  • Blake Beckman
  • David Mackay
  • Franklin Wong
  • Jack Collier
  • Michael Trentini
  • Pierre R. Bilodeau
  • Simon Monckton

Organizations

  • DRDC Valcartier

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computational Science
  • Control Systems
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Kalman Filters
  • Military Operations
  • Motion Planning
  • Simultaneous Localization And Mapping
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs