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Technology Development of Military<br />

<strong>Applications</strong> of Unmanned Ground Vehicles<br />

Tomasz Czapla and Józef Wrona<br />

Abstract. The paper presents history, current state of knowledge and future perspectives<br />

of unmanned technology application for military ground vehicles. As the<br />

first, the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g and evolution of unmanned technology from on remote control<br />

based solutions to autonomous ones is described. Then classification and overview<br />

of systems currently manufactured and developed. At the end of the paper perspectives<br />

and directions of unmanned ground vehicles development is presented.<br />

1 Introduction<br />

The first military applications of unmanned ground vehicles appeared <strong>in</strong> n<strong>in</strong>eteenth<br />

century. Just now they assists the commander and the warriors dur<strong>in</strong>g execution<br />

of dangerous tasks at the more and more complex battlefield. The field of<br />

abilities of the unmanned military systems is very wide. They are able to transport<br />

equipment, carry some weapons, collect <strong>in</strong>telligence <strong>in</strong>formation, detect the<br />

threats, etc. Technology development has an great impact on these abilities and<br />

thus possibilities of usage of these systems.<br />

We can observe <strong>in</strong>cremental <strong>in</strong>novations <strong>in</strong> the area of these systems rather<br />

than radical or even revolutionary (Arditi, D., Kale, S., and Tangkar M., 1997).<br />

Theirs development is depended on some factors such as technology development<br />

and ne<strong>eds</strong> to achieve new capabilities that are able to fight aga<strong>in</strong>st threats of the<br />

Tomasz Czapla<br />

Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g, Division of<br />

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ul. Konarskiego 18A, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland<br />

e-mail: jwrona@wat.edu.pl, tomasz.czapla@polsl.pl<br />

Józef Wrona<br />

Military University of Technology,<br />

ul. gen. Sylwestra Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland<br />

Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements,<br />

Aleje Jerozolimskie 2022, 02-486 Warsaw, Poland<br />

A. <strong>Nawrat</strong> and Z. <strong>Kuś</strong> (Eds.): <strong>Vision</strong> <strong>Based</strong> Systems for <strong>UAV</strong> <strong>Applications</strong>, SCI <strong>481</strong>, pp. 293–309.<br />

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00369-6_19 © Spr<strong>in</strong>ger International Publish<strong>in</strong>g Switzerland <strong>2013</strong>

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