A Robotic Tank Gun Autoloader,

Abstract

The use of a robotic arm to load rounds in a tank gun has been considered for the Improved Conventional Armament System (ICAS). Such a device will be able to both transfer the ready rounds located in the turret basket to the rear of the breech and resupply the turret with rounds stored in the hull. The present preliminary design has been modeled on a robot computer graphics simulation program (GRASP). To assist the robot controller, the GRASP program will provide a trajectory that is computed to minimize unnecessary joint motion. A mini computer will operate the robot's servo controlled hydraulic actuators. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADP001076

Entities

People

  • S. J. Derby

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Actuators
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Control Theory
  • Graphics
  • Guns
  • Hydraulic Actuators
  • Mechanical Equipment
  • Michigan
  • Pneumatic Equipment
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Tank Guns
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Software Engineering
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy