Military Robotics: Latest Trends and Spatial Grasp Solutions

A review of some latest achievements in the area of military robotics is given, with main demands to management of advanced unmanned systems formulated. The developed Spatial Grasp Technology, SGT, capable of satisfying these demands will be briefed. Directly operating with physical, virtual, and executive spaces, as well as their combinations, SGT uses highlevel holistic mission scenarios that self-navigate and cover the whole systems in a super-virus mode. This brings top operations, data, decision logic, and overall command and control to the distributed resources at run time, providing flexibility, ubiquity, and capability of self-recovery in solving complex problems, especially those requiring quick reaction on unpredictable situations. Exemplary scenarios of tasking and managing robotic collectives at different conceptual levels in a special language will be presented. SGT can effectively support gradual transition to automated up to fully robotic systems under the unified command and control. Keywords—military robots; unmanned systems; Spatial Grasp Technology; holistic scenarios; self-navigation; collective behavior; self-recovery