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2 September 2004 Future technology vision for unmanned ground vehicles (UGV)
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been looking to biology to provide insights into how organisms efficiently navigate in their environment. Specifically, we have sought to understand how organisms, from mammals to insects, can perform rapid locomotion over rough, uneven terrain. These biomimetic principles have been applied to various robotic platforms and the development continues as engineers and roboticists strive to emulate the behavior of natural systems. The following attempts to briefly capture the technology progression to current funded efforts, with a vision towards future robotic interests.
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Morley Stone, John G. Blitch, and Alan Rudolph "Future technology vision for unmanned ground vehicles (UGV)", Proc. SPIE 5422, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VI, (2 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.547945
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KEYWORDS
Robotics

Unmanned ground vehicles

Materials science

Sensors

Algorithm development

Biology

Biomimetics

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