Unmanned Ground Vehicles: Future of Land Operations

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) are vehicles intended for various land-based operations and operate without onboard human occupants. With the development of modern technological possibilities, the development and production of the UGVs are on a significant rise.

Such vehicles are being developed for both civilian and military markets, to perform a variety of special purposes and missions, which are either dangerous or unsuitable to be performed by human crews. The UGVs are generally remotely controlled by human operators located outside the threat zone or act autonomously upon the environmental data collected using their own sensors.

Missions and Applications

Unmanned Ground Vehicles have the enormous potential to bring revolution in performing the wide and diverse spectrum of challenges in the civilian and military domain. Daily tasks in agriculture and industry, as well as critical missions in crisis management and military operations, can now be approached from a completely different point of view, minimizing human risk while improving task performance. Although the possible applications of UGVs are limited only by a lack of futuristic vision, it is worth mentioning some of their more common applications.

• Industrial applications
• Nuclear and energy plants operations
• Maintenance tasks
• Transport & logistic
• Construction operations
• Ore mining
• Agricultural spraying…