CORPORATE BACKGROUND

Since Robotic Technology Incorporated (RTI) was chartered in 1985 by Maryland, U.S.A., we have provided our clients with expertise in the fields of intelligent systems, robotic vehicles (including unmanned ground, air, and sea vehicles), robotics and automation, weapons systems, intelligent control systems, intelligent transportation systems, intelligent manufacturing, and other advanced technology.

Overview of Military Robotics

The following presentation provides a history and overview of military robotics. It focuses primarily on robotic ground vehicles, with only cursory mention of robotic air, sea surface, and underwater vehicles.

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Our expertise includes such disciplines as:

• Autonomous Intelligent Control Systems and Machine Intelligence
• Autonomous Intelligent Robots and Vehicles
• Combat Robotics: Intelligent Air, Ground, and Sea Vehicles
• Civil Applications for Intelligent Ground, Air, and Sea Vehicles
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Homeland Security Analysis
• Technology Transfer, Assessment, Forecasting, and Risk Mitigation
• Business Development
• Intelligent Systems for Decision Making
• Memetics (Information Propagation, Impact, and Persistence)
• Future Combat Systems
• Service and Field Robots
• Factory and Office Automation
• Telepresence and Virtual Reality
• Operations Research, Weapon, and C3I Systems Analysis
• Simulation, Modeling, and Scenario Development
• Technology/Policy Analyses
• Management Systems and Intelligent Organizations
• Technical Information Services, Seminars, and Workshops

Our projects have included:

• Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR)
• Military Memetics (Information Propagation, Impact, and Persistence)
• Future Combat System (FCS) robotic ground and air vehicles
• Application of Hierarchical Real-time Control System to intelligent vehicles
• Intelligent Vehicle Technology Transfer (IVTT)
• Humanoid and legged robots for military applications
• Homeland security analysis and risk mitigation
• Commercialization of mobile robots and intelligent vehicles
• Technology assessment of robotics/automation for automobile assembly
• Autonomous Management System for unmanned air vehicles
• Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Master Plan (sections)
• Civil applications for unmanned air vehicles
• Back-packable unmanned air vehicle; long endurance UAVs
• Unmanned air and ground vehicles in SIMNET (DIS)
• Technology assessment of automation/robotics for naval landing zone
• Robotics for Army logistics and material handling
• Robotic assembly of innovative ocean structures
• Robotics/automation for road construction and maintenance
• Intelligent transportation systems
• GPS-based fleet management and automated vehicle location systems
• Combat robotics in Air/Land Battle 2000
• Impact of combat robotics on Army training requirements
• Emerging technologies and impact on Army leadership
• Zoomorphic and arctic robotic vehicles; amphibious robots
• Pipelined Image Processing Engine, machine vision
• Robotic artillery systems
• Telepresence/virtual reality (for vehicles & manufacturing)
• Robotic excavators, dozers, trucks, and the NIST Robocrane
• Unmanned underwater vehicle technology
• Genetic algorithms for adaptive systems
• SpringWalker exoskeleton; exoskeletons for construction
• Virtual reality; synthetic environments
• Robotics and intelligent machines for the Department of Energy
• Cyberfield, a robotic replacement for minefields
• Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC)
• Robotic vehicles as platforms for terrorist weapons of mass destruction
• Technology transfer from unmanned air to unmanned ground vehicles
• Integration of unmanned air and ground vehicle operations
• Net-centric Warfare
• Ontology for Intelligent System