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The paper presents history, current state of knowledge and future perspectives of unmanned technology application for military ground vehicles. As the first, the beginning and evolution of unmanned technology from on remote control based solutions to autonomous ones is described. Then classification and overview of systems currently manufactured and developed. At the end of the paper perspectives and directions of unmanned ground vehicles development is presented.
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Czapla, T., Wrona, J. (2013). Technology Development of Military Applications of Unmanned Ground Vehicles. In: Nawrat, A., Kuś, Z. (eds) Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 481. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00369-6_19
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