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7. Roadmaps to the Future
Pages 104-110

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... Each system builds on one or more of the capabilities demonstrated by a predecessor system so that the technology developments have a cumulative effect, providing a path for the evolutionary development of multiple UGV capabilities for the Army. The chronology at the bottom of Figure 7-2 results from the earlier TRL estimates of technological maturity for the fundamental UGV technologies required for the example systems.
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... ROADMAPS TO THE FUTURE Manual Remote Astral .~ Teleoperation Limited Senaration Clear Line of Sight FIGURE 7-1 Evolution of UGV systems.
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... Roacimaps for Technology Development Figures 7-5 through 7-8 are technology development roadmaps for the specific examples described in Chapter 2. As with Figure 7-49 the roadmaps assume that all capability
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From page 107...
... 1 1 1 1 ~ it_ FIGURE 7-5 Technology development roadmap for the Searcher indicating the year TRL 6 will be reached for the system.
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... ~' i =~! Y3i~i 1 T I I T T FYn9 FY10 FIGURE 7-6 Technology development roadmap for the Donkey indicating the year TRL 6 will be reached for the system.
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From page 109...
... Figure 7-9 takes the technology development roadmaps for specific examples and generalizes to estimated time lines for the Army to field an "entry-level" semiautonomous preceder/follower (SAP/F) , platform-centric autonomous vehicle (PC-AGV)
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... TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR ARMY UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES Perception Navigation Planning Learning/Adaptation Behavior & Skills Human-Robot Interaction Mobility Communications Power/Energy Health Maintenance Modeling & Simulation/lntegration/ Test & Evaluation, Mission Packages 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 ~ NC-AGV (network-centric autonomous ground vehicle) C1 PC-AGV (platform-centric autonomous ground vehicle)
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Key Terms

  • milestone dates
  • development roadmap
  • fcs program
  • engineering perspective
  • technology developments

  • unmanned ground
  • ground vehicle
  • examples described
  • development roadmaps
  • ugv development

  • ugv technologies
  • capability classes
  • capability gaps
  • specific examples
  • objective force

  • difficult obstacles
  • fill critical
  • study resulted
  • estimating technology
  • line estimates

  • autonomous vehicle
  • autonomous capability
  • broad ugv
  • common capabilities
  • army ugvs

  • capabilities demonstrated
  • task statement
  • ground vehicles
  • program plan
  • estimated time


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