Army maneuver officials are hoping that a consortium of experts inwards non-military robotics tin honor novel ways for fighting units to defeat the enemy, specially inwards dense urban terrain. The Army's Capabilities Development together with Integration Directorate, or CDID, at Fort Benning, Georgia, of late partnered with the National Advanced Mobility Consortium to acquit an outcome-based excogitation workshop -- an approach to challenges that has been "proven inwards the commercial manufacture sector but never potentially used inwards a partnership with the state of war machine to larn later on about of the military's problems," according to Col. Tom Nelson, the caput of CDID's Robotics Requirement Division. The consortium of late had discussions with diverse groups, such equally soldiers from third Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment; Army captains from the Maneuver Captains Career Course; together with Training together with Doctrine Command officials representing Army infantry, armor together with Stryker brigade fighting teams.
Between at in i lawsuit together with April, the consortium volition see tactical problems together with potential solutions involving robotics together with autonomous systems, Nelson said.
Army officials are hopeful that the grouping tin assist railroad train a solution that tin live on used for precision appointment inwards unopen urban terrain, for dealing with enemy forces that shroud alongside the population inwards large cities.
"I similar to travel the example, you lot can't blow upward a naught code to kill a mailbox," said Don Sando, managing director of CDID.
"How exercise you lot travel later on that mailbox, or that private or modest unit of measurement that is taking it upon themselves to shroud together with protect themselves inwards an environs that they know you lot are going to convey difficulty going after," he said.
The Army, he said, thinks robotics tin assist soldiers exercise simply that.
"In an ideal world, he said, "we tin arrive where it is really affordable together with your mission payload is either a riot-control agent or about sort of concussion or, on the high-end, about sort of lethal lawsuit ... delivered yesteryear a robotic together with autonomous organisation nether the command of a soldier."
Another employment the grouping wants to travel later on is how to to a greater extent than effectively supply fighting leaders with a more-defined, "common operating picture" of the battlefield, Nelson said.
"We intend that robotic together with autonomous volition allow us to exercise that inwards a agency that nosotros haven't been able to exercise inwards the past," Nelson said.
"If you lot intend close a battalion lookout adult man platoon on a cover draw of piece of work -- how tin a robotic together with autonomous organisation assist inwards producing situational awareness together with thence feeding that [to soldiers] thence they run across things on the battlefield? ... How does that larn something that a determination maker tin use?"
The consortium volition proceed to piece of work the employment together with hopes to introduce either prototypes or white papers describing solutions during the National Defense Industry Association's National Robotic Conference inwards April, Army officials said.
"It's simply an chance to assist us await at the employment differently, together with they may come upward up with the same answers that nosotros convey been looking at for years ... but I suspect that they may come upward at it a fiddling differently," Sando said.
In the past, the Army has gone to manufacture with a employment together with said, "here is sort of what nosotros intend is a agency to solve that employment with an [unmanned aerial system] or a solid set down robot," Nelson said.
"We are non providing that to them. All they desire at this betoken is the employment together with the information that helps define that problem. So hopefully they tin come upward up with something that hasn't been looked at before."
-- Matthew Cox tin live on reached at matthew.cox@military.com.
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