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Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL, volume 3)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
It is widely anticipated that autonomous vehicles will have a transformational impact on military forces and will play a key role in many future force structures. As a result, many tasks have already been identified that unmanned systems could undertake more readily than humans. However, for this to occur, such systems will need to be agile, versatile, persistent, reliable, survivable and lethal. This will require many of the vehicles ‘cognitive’ or higher order functions to be more fully developed, whereas to date only the ‘component’ or physical functions have been successfully automated and deployed.
The book draws upon a broad range of others’ work with a view to providing a product that is greater than the sum of its parts. The discussion is intentionally approached from the perspective of improving understanding rather than providing solutions or drawing firm conclusions. Consequently, researchers reading this book with the hope of uncovering some novel theory or approach to automating an unmanned vehicle will be as disappointed as the capability planner who anticipates a catalogue of technical risks and feasibility options against his favoured list of component technologies and potential applications. Nevertheless, it is hoped that both will at least learn something of the other’s world and that progress will ensue as a result.
For the defence policy and decision maker, this is a "must-read" book which brings together an important technology summary with a considered analysis of future doctrinal, legal and ethical issues in unmanned and autonomous systems. For research engineers and developers of robotics, this book provides a unique perspective on the implications and consequences of our craft; connecting what we do to the deployment and use of the technology in current and future defence systems.
Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Defence, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, Australia
Anthony Finn
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Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Steve Scheding
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Book Subtitle: A Compendium
Authors: Anthony Finn, Steve Scheding
Series Title: Intelligent Systems Reference Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10704-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-10703-0Published: 28 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26270-8Published: 04 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-10704-7Published: 17 March 2010
Series ISSN: 1868-4394
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 230
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation, Computational Intelligence