Karamanoglu, M.; Odedra, S.; Prior, S.

Towards solving the mobility issues of unmanned ground vehicles.

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Karamanoglu, M., Odedra, S. and Prior, S. 2007. Towards solving the mobility issues of unmanned ground vehicles. Gerhart, G., Gage, D. and Shoemaker, C. (ed.) Defence and Security Symposium. Orlando, Florida, United States 09 - 13 Apr 2007 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.721495

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Title	Towards solving the mobility issues of unmanned ground vehicles.
Authors	Karamanoglu, M., Odedra, S. and Prior, S.
Abstract	Karamanoglu's research aims at the mobility issues in ground vehicles for civil applications. At present there are no commercial solutions that exist in autonomous sensing of the terrain properties in domestic or commercial vehicles. The only application so far is the recent implementation of manual setting of the terrain response by the driver in Land Rover SUVs. The degree of vehicle comfort is dependent purely on the driver's experience in guessing the correct terrain properties. The overall aim of this research is to develop an intelligent system that can sense its environment, particularly the terrain properties and, by make use of this information to improve occupant comfort and driving safety. There are also similar needs in military applications but there appears to be no systematic research being done to establish the terrain properties, and much of the published work is sporadic. The research reported here offers to formalise the mobility issues of unmanned ground vehicles and proposes a solution strategy in helping to identify the system requirements to achieve an intelligent mobility system. The work described was presented at the Defence and Security Symposium in Florida, involving 32 separate conferences and attracting more than 1800 paper presentations. This is the largest unclassified symposium related to sensors and sensor networks worldwide. The paper was presented as part of the Unmanned Systems Technology IX Conference which attracted 75 refereed paper presentations. The paper has generated interest from Land Rover and the Ministry of Defence.
Keywords	unmanned; autonomous; mobility; locomotion; Situational awareness; reconfigurable; intelligent wheels
Conference	Defence and Security Symposium
Proceedings Title	Proceedings of SPIE Volume 6561 – Defence and Security Symposium, Unmanned Systems Technology IX, 9-13 April 2007, Orlando, Florida
Series	Proceedings of SPIE
Editors	Gerhart, G., Gage, D. and Shoemaker, C.
ISSN	0277-786X
ISBN	9780819466839
Publisher	Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Online	02 May 2007
Print	27 Apr 2007
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Deposited	12 Nov 2008
Output status	Published
Web address (URL)	http://spie.org/x648.xml?product_id=721495
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.721495
Web of Science identifier	WOS:000248227700035
Language	English
Patent applicant	Sid Odedra

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