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Technology Development of Military Applications of Unmanned Ground Vehicles

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Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 481))

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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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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Konarskiego 18A, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Tomasz Czapla

  2. Military University of Technology, ul. gen. Sylwestra Kaliskiego 2, 00-908, Warsaw, Poland

    Józef Wrona

  3. Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements, Aleje Jerozolimskie 2022, 02-486, Warsaw, Poland

    Józef Wrona

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  1. Institute of Automatic Control, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, Gliwice, 44-101, Poland

    Aleksander Nawrat

  2. Institute of Automatic Control, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, Gliwice, 44-101, Poland

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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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