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Advanced Military Robots Supporting Engineer Reconnaissance in Military Operations

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Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems (MESAS 2017)

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Abstract

The paper deals with possible use of advanced military robots within key military engineering task – the engineer reconnaissance. Firstly, paper aims at the description of engineer reconnaissance and defines its key tasks. Then it focuses on military robots, their characteristics, use in military operations and current role in supporting of engineer reconnaissance. Paper also mentions their possible use in manned-unmanned teaming. Next part of the paper deals with proposal of assignment of certain types of military robots to defined key engineer reconnaissance tasks according to their specific features. The last part of the paper focuses on the future trends in research, development and implementation of these systems into engineer reconnaissance. Main goal of this paper is to identify possible use of advanced robotic technologies within key engineer reconnaissance tasks, to propose assignment of certain types of military robots to these tasks and to predict in general their possible future trends in research, development and application. Scientific methods of analysis, synthesis and structured interviews were used to achieve main goal. Variety of military and scientific publications and structured interviews with military engineer experts provided main source of the information.

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Notes

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    The engineer commander must base his decisions on the best possible information. This will come through engineer channels, from the tactical commander and his staff and from supported units but may take time [ATP-3.12.1].

  2. 2.

    The intelligence cycle is the common name for the intelligence process. Within the cycle, intelligence staffs conduct tasks and operations that provide relevant, accurate and timely intelligence to decision-makers [JDP-2-00].

  3. 3.

    Prisoners of war.

  4. 4.

    Military robots are usually described as unmanned systems in NATO armies.

  5. 5.

    Finabel is an organisation promoting cooperation between individual armies of the European Union.

  6. 6.

    Autonomous systems are defined as intelligent systems that can emulate human thinking. Unmanned systems may show signs of independent and intelligent behaviour. We can await growing numbers of advanced autonomous unmanned systems in the future.

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    Sometimes called as “3D” tasks.

  8. 8.

    Contaminated area.

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  1. 153rd Engineer Battalion, Army of the Czech Republic, Libušina 648/111, 779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Michal Kopuletý

  2. University of Defense, Kounicova 65, 662 10, Brno, Czech Republic

    Tibor Palasiewicz

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Kopuletý, M., Palasiewicz, T. (2018). Advanced Military Robots Supporting Engineer Reconnaissance in Military Operations. In: Mazal, J. (eds) Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems. MESAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10756. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76072-8_20

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