Unmanned ground vehicle

Owens, Ken, and Larry Matthies. Passive Night Vision Sensor Comparison for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Stereo Vision Navigtaion, in proceedings from the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. IEEE, 122—131,2000. 

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An emergency stop is the capability to immediately override all controls to a device and bring it to an immediate stop state. It may be a button or switch that is used to cut power to a piece of machinery or to stop movement of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) system. An emergency stop is a DSF. 

The pCAD provided for the first time true real-time agent detection capabilities with subsecond equilibrated agent responses. It offers robust performance for ground and unmanned aerial vehicle applications in an environment with dynamically changing humidity and temperature a palm-sized system fabricated with commercial off-the-shelf components and low-power operation with no consumables. 

Individual agent detection instruments have limited utility, especially outside a laboratory. To be fully useful, field instruments need to be integrated into a suite of instruments and deployed as a measurement system with automated sample acquisition, instrument control and data acquisition, quality assurance, analysis, transmission and archiving capabilities. Laboratory instruments may not need to be as fully integrated. Agent-detection instrument suites may be deployed at fixed sites or on mobile platforms, including ground vehicles, ships, and piloted or unmanned aircraft. 

Microtubular SOFCs have been successfully integrated into portable power xmits by Ultra Electronics AMI (USA). Figure 8 shows its 50 W and 250 W systems that use propane as the fuel to produce continuous power. The 50 W systems, miming on propane, provide power for ground sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, and robots. The 250 W systems are fueled by propane or LPG and are used to extend military mission durations and deliver off-grid power for electronics, radios, and computers. The use of globally available fuels in such portable SOFC systems eliminates complicated logistics. 

APUs find their use in many different applications. In the 3-20 kW range, this includes heavy duty trucks, military vehicles, ground generators, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Each application is described in more detail below. 

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