Unmanned land vehicle

US Army Packbot

An unmanned land vehicle ( Engl. Unmanned ground vehicle freeride ) is a land vehicle that does not require drivers. The vehicle is either controlled remotely or acts autonomously (see also autonomous land vehicle ). A remotely operated vehicle is called a ROV (remotely operated vehicle) . They are used, for example, in areas that would be too dangerous for people. In the future, the ability to act autonomously will continue to increase and these robots will open up additional fields of activity.

Tasks of unmanned vehicles

Israeli police bomb disposal robots in action in front of a supermarket in Afula , September 2006

Unmanned vehicles are now mainly of police and military employed, such as the SWORDS (English: robots to fight hard or soft targets UGCV ) in bomb disposal (EOD robots) or in the search for booby traps.

The US American DARPA is promoting the development of fully autonomous vehicles with the DARPA Grand Challenge . This resulted in the Stanley , Junior and H1ghlander cars, for example .

After the Chernobyl disaster , remote-controlled robots were used by liquidators to help clean up radioactive material. However, their microelectronics failed when the radiation exposure was too high.

In addition to military and police use, unmanned vehicles are also used in the civil sector, e.g. B. in engineering for the measurement and characterization of the properties of road surfaces . Unmanned vehicles act as carriers for various sensors, evaluation and display systems and allow road properties to be measured continuously.

surface drone measuring system for determining the texture and evenness of road surface courses ( Müller-BBM )

Drone types

TUGV / UGCV: Gladiator of the USMC

• EOD robots (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robots) are remote-controlled vehicles for bomb disposal.
• SUGV (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle) are reconnaissance robots.
• TUGV (Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle) are military robots with a tactical range for reconnaissance, transport or combat.
• UGCV (Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle) is a combat robot like SWORDS .
• UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) is generally an unmanned ground vehicle.

See also

• Telerobotics
• Unmanned aerial vehicle
• Unmanned watercraft
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
• Sewer inspection (cable-controlled reconnaissance vehicle)
• Rover (space travel) (unmanned semi-autonomous vehicle for planetary exploration )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.muellerbbm.de/produkte/surface-drone/