Plenary talk I

The Unmanned technology is now one of key features on the future combat scenario. For example, USA support various military projects to train the high-tech soldiers, land warrior and object force warrior, and to develop the small reconnaissance robots. Korea also established the plan of the military reform in 2005, and started to support the research and development for building more advanced and scientifc armed force. In this presentation, we focus on the current research issues on unmanned technology for developing the future warfare robot like the unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), the unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), and the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in Korea. Especially for the UGV, one of the most important issues is autonomous navigation. Autonomous navigation in rough terrain should consider the following problems; integrated path planning considering the global and local maps, multi-sensor fusion for 3D world modeling, traversability assessment of terrain for the safe and fast navigation, localization of the vehicle based on given sensor information, and dynamics control of the UGV.