The robots in homeland security – revolution or evolution

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There is no doubt – many homeland security missions in the not so far  future will be performed by joint forces of “robots” in the air, on the ground and at sea.

Following the development trends of the Israeli unmanned combat systems  leaves no doubt. The battlefield and before that routine security operations , will be put in the “hands” of those sophisticated machines , some with artificial intelligence as a built in feature.

To allow that vision of “robots” working together come true, the future Israeli developed unmanned air systems (UAS) are designed with a capability to operate in conjunction with fully autonomous ground and sea systems.

The Israeli defense forces (IDF) wants different types of unmanned system to be interconnected in order to jointly perform combat missions.

This requirement is a step towards the deployment of fully autonomous ground based unmanned systems that will be capable to “talk” with unmanned air systems (UAS) .

The advanced Israeli made UAS , are already fully autonomous. The effort is currently to enable unmanned ground systems (UGS) to have the same capability.

Gnius, a joint company of Elbit systems and Israel aerospace industries (IAI) is working to achieve that goal. The company says that some of the company’s fully autonomous ground systems are in the process to achieve different degrees of full autonomous operation.

The company’s “Guardium” UGV is already being tested with systems that will be able to “talk” with similar systems in the air and at sea.

The technology division of the Israeli defense forces (IDF) is also working on giving autonomous capabilities to some currently used systems. One of these is the M-113 armored personnel carrier (APC). This will be achieved by replacing the driver with a “black box” and an electric-mechanical system.

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