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Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV)

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) can transport items without carrying humans. Navigation and control present longstanding challenges, addressed through teleoperation with human guidance, full autonomy using onboard sensors, or a combination. Automated Guided Vehicles precisely follow pre-determined or marked paths. UGVs equipped with tools can perform manipulation tasks in desired areas without humans present, though application-specific issues are more significant than navigation. Common UGV concepts include lane departure warning systems for vehicles that detect unintended lane changes.

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Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV)

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) can transport items without carrying humans. Navigation and control present longstanding challenges, addressed through teleoperation with human guidance, full autonomy using onboard sensors, or a combination. Automated Guided Vehicles precisely follow pre-determined or marked paths. UGVs equipped with tools can perform manipulation tasks in desired areas without humans present, though application-specific issues are more significant than navigation. Common UGV concepts include lane departure warning systems for vehicles that detect unintended lane changes.

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Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV)

Definition:
An UGV is any piece of mechanized equipment that moves across the surface of the ground and
serves as means of carrying or transporting something, but explicitly doesn't carry a human being.
A long pole technological challenge of this systems is or has been the area of navigation and
control. Within that context, a teleoperated vehicle system is one in which navigational guidance is
transmitted to the vehicle from an externally situated human operator; an autonomous vehicle is
one which determines its own course using on board sensors an processing resources; the name
supervisory control is often given to the myriad of control schemes which combines inputs from
both: an external human operator and an on board sensors to determine the path. The automated
guided vehicles , or AGVs are those vehicles whose path of motion is physically predetermined
(either mechanically constrained, as by rails, or or inflexibly following some pre-marked path.
Machines with tools
A number of applications call for machines that can move to a desired area and then perform some
sort of work involving manipulation or using any of a variety of tools ("effectors" is the robotic
terminology). The issues involved in performing manipulation or other work without a human
present often dominate over the UGV navigation and control issues, and tend to be applicationspecific.
Common UGV concepts
Lane departure warning system: In road-transport terminology, a lane departure warning system is a
mechanism designed to warn a driver when the vehicle begins to move out of its lane (unless a turn
signal is on in that direction) on freeways and arterial roads.

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