Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles A Compe
It is widely anticipated that autonomous vehicles will have a transformational impact on military forces and will play a key role in many future force structures. As a result, many tasks have already been identified that unmanned systems could undertake m
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Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Volume 3 Editors-in-Chief Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Newelska 6 01-447 Warsaw Poland E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain University of South Australia Adelaide Mawson Lakes Campus South Australia Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Further volumes of this series can be found on our homepage: springer.com Vol. 1. Christine L. Mumford and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Computational Intelligence, 2009 ISBN 978-3-642-01798-8 Vol. 2. Yuehui Chen and Ajith Abraham Tree-Structure Based Hybrid Computational Intelligence, 2009 ISBN 978-3-642-04738-1 Vol. 3. Anthony Finn and Steve Scheding Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-10703-0
Anthony Finn and Steve Scheding
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Anthony Finn Defence Science & Technology Organisation Department of Defence Edinburgh, SA 5111 Australia E-mail: anthony.fi[email protected]
Steve Scheding Australian Centre for Field Robotics University of Sydney Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia E-mail: [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-10703-0
e-ISBN 978-3-642-10704-7
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-10704-7 Intelligent Systems Reference Library
ISSN 1868-4394
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Foreword
The past decade has seen a sea change in both the vision and practical deployment of robotics and autonomous systems in defence applications. This has been driven both by increasing technical capabilities and by the imagining of what can be done by many researchers and application experts. The visible successes of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), as brought to you daily on your evening TV news, of bomb disposal and sentry robots in regular use in urban conflicts, and of underwater mine-hunting robot vehicles deployed as standard features on ships, are all changing the way we think about defence and tactical conflict. Our future thoughts on what robots
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