RPAS -UGV: a growing market for military and civilian applications
Y. Baudoin
Abstract:
The Royal Military Academy was coordinating two European Projects , one focusing on Humanitarian Demining, the other one on Search and Rescue Operations, both projects intending to exploit the improved performances of Robotics Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or, better said, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) in particular and Unmanned Land-vehicles or UGV. The RPAS are characterized by an increasing development and use in the military sector for combat, combat support and logistic missions, as well as in the civilian sphere, essentially focusing on Environmental Surveillance and Security missions: The well-known acronym RSTA summarizes those missions: RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEILLANCE, TARGET ACQUISITION The UGV are still prototypes and regularly tested through competitions like ELROB (www.elrob.org).
