UAV / UCAV / LAR (robotit) Uutiset ja jutut

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The Kalashnikov Corporation, the producer of the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle and a subsidiary of Russia’s state hi-tech corporation Rostec, is developing an advanced reconnaissance and attack system with a weight of about 20 tons, the BAS-01G BM Soratnik unmanned combat ground vehicle, Corporation CEO Alexei Krivoruchko told TASS.

http://www.armyrecognition.com/weap...econnaissance/combat_robot_tass_82003173.html

Last year, the Kalashnikov Corporation showed its first Soratnik robotic system developed for Russia’s Defense Ministry. The Soratnik system is an armored tracked vehicle furnished with an automated control system, secure radio channels and acquisition and surveillance equipment. The system can carry a combat module. The Soratnik can work in cooperation with other automated combat systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured by Zala Aero Group that is a Kalashnikov Corporation subsidiary.

"It is an innovative platform developed by the military division of the Kalashnikov Group in accordance with the terms of reference issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Soratnik tracked unmanned vehicle is intended for combat reconnaissance, fire support of soldiers on the battlefield, mine clearance, logistics operations, and patrolling. The UCGV has a combat weight of about 7,000 kg, an operational range of 400 km, a maximum road speed of 40 km/h, and a remote control distance of 10 km. It can work in direct control, semi-automatic, and fully automatic modes. The Soratnik's optoelectronic suite allows target detecting at a 2,500 m distance. The robot is complemented by two tactical reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) designed by ZALA Aero (a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov group). Soratnik can be armed with 7.62mm Kalashnikov PKT/PKTM machinegun, 12.7mm 6P49 Kord heavy machinegun, or 30mm AG-17A Plamya (Flame) automatic grenade launcher (AGL). We have also integrated the newest 40mm 6G27 Balkan AGL with the vehicle. Both domestic and foreign potential customers showed their interest in the platform. The UCGV is armed with eight ready-to-launch 9M133M Kornet-EM anti-tank guided missiles in the anti-tank configuration," a company representative said at the Army 2016 military-technical forum.

BAS-01G BM Soratnik is a small squad-level tactical UCGV intended for limited support of troops on the battlefield, as it is basically armed with small arms and light weapons (SALW). However, the vehicle demonstrates the latest achievements of Kalashnikov in the area of unmanned vehicles. In 2015-2016, the company acquired ZALA Aero, one of the most prominent UAVs manufacturers in Russia and the Rybinsk Shipyard, a builder of fast attack craft (FAC). "We are developing a whole system aimed at the enhancing of the Russian armed forces' combat capabilities. The system will be comprised of SALW, manned/unmanned FACs, and UAVs developed by the Concern," Director General of the Kalashnikov Group, Alexey Krivoruchko said at the Army 2016 show. Therefore, Soratnik is believed to be one more element of the aforementioned combat system being designed by the company. Russia's military is reported to have shown interest in the BAS-01G BM Soratnik unmanned robotic platform.

 

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Norjalaisten Search and Rescue quad-dronella

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Tuli mieleen kun katselin viikonloppuna 127 Tuntia elokuvan (ensimmäistä kertaa), notta jos sillä sankarilla olisi ollut quad repussa niin hän olisi voinut käyttää sitä etsimään muita ihmisiä ja saamaan heille viestin että oli siellä kanjonissa jumissa. Siinä olisi riittänyt iltapäivälehdille pelihousujen repimistä kun dronea käytettäisiin käänteisesti. Mutta en usko että marjan keruuseen lähteviä mummoja rupeavat pakkaamaan dronea reppuun eväiten seuraksi.

 

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Eesti sai kehityssopimuksen Milrenin maadronelle jenkkien markkinoille.

Estonian defense solutions provider Milrem is developing smart unmanned ground vehicles with concepts of how to use them on the modern battlefield as adaptive systems to minimize dangerous risks to warfighters. Milrem will launch joint product efforts with KONGSBERG and QinetiQ North America last week.

http://www.armyrecognition.com/marc...kongsberg_qinetiq_north_america_12603172.html

“This is a great opportunity to collaborate with such an esteemed company as KONGSBERG and continue our cooperation with QNA. Integration of this remote weapon station is another example of how easily the THeMIS can be configured for different applications. These various applications form a system of robotic warfare capabilities” explained Kuldar Vaarsi, CEO of Milrem.

Last October the companies introduced the Titan UGV for dismounted troop support that features the THeMIS UGV with QNA's UGV control technology - the Tactical Robot Controller (TRC) and Robotic Appliqué Kit (RAK). This vehicle will also be displayed at GRCCE.

In parallel, Milrem is developing technologies for military forces to enable how unmanned ground systems may be used in combat as an efficient and powerful manned-unmanned teaming system that reduces battlefield risks to warfighters.

The end results of this program, known as Digital Infantry Battlefield Solution (DIBS) will result in recommendations for military doctrine in order to effectively use the capability of robotic systems.

 

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Russian arms makers have announced efforts to shoot multiple small drones in rapid succession from small arms and cannons, hastening a day when Russian and U.S. drone swarms may meet each other over the skies of distant battlefield.

On Thursday, Russian news site Tass revealed a reconnaissance drone that a soldier would shoot from “a hand-held grenade launcher.”

“The drone is prepared for launch within a period of 5 seconds to 3 minutes, depending on the time of preparing a flight program in cases when other similar drones require much more time for accomplishing the mission,” Tass reported.

The unveil was part of a military robotics show that brought together more than 30 Russian defense companies and 500 participants.

http://www.defenseone.com/technolog...un-launched-swarmbots/136501/?oref=d-topstory

 

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Tulevaisuudessa ei ole paljon mahdollisuuksia jatkaa perinteisesti käsipelillä asioiden monimutkaistuessa. Robotit ja automaatio on väistämättä sulatettava jos halutaan jatkaa eteenpäin menemistä. Ihminen on enemmän operaattori, suunnittelija ja insinööri koneiden poistaessa perinteisiä työpaikkoja.

Spoiler: Botteja työssä AMDn Dresdenin tehtaalla.

Today's technopanic about robots and AI, largely created by the media, may be overstated.

New modelling published this week attempts to isolate the impact of industrial automation from other factors, and envisage what the economy might look like if the use of robots in industry increases, focusing on the impact on employment rates and working-class wages. Factory robots may have a significant impact on both – but only if the adoption of automation increases dramatically, the authors note. And it may not.

In recent months headline-grabbing studies by consultants McKinsey and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have added to the technopanic, suggesting that (respectively) 45 per cent of US jobs are at risk from automation, while the OECD estimates that 57 per cent of jobs worldwide are at risk.

Authors Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo, in a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, note that automation is already significant: the auto industry employs 39 per cent of industrial robots, followed by electronics (19 per cent), metal production (9 per cent), and plastics and chemicals (9 per cent).

The authors attempt to exclude other factors such as the effect of imports from Germany, Japan and Korea on jobs and wages, and studied the impact of robots on US industry between 1990 and 2007. They discovered "large and robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones" when human labour has to compete with robots. Acemoglu and Restrepo reckon:

According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to population ratio by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5 per cent.

The bullish International Federation of Robotics ("the voice of robotics in the world") estimates a threefold increase in industrial robots by 2025, from between 1.5-1.75 million today to 4.5 million in 2025. Robots here are defined as fully autonomous machines that can be programmed to do several jobs. Between 1993 and 2007, the stock of industrial robots increased by 1 per 1,000 workers in the US and 1.6 per thousand in Western Europe. There was a negligible adoption of robots in education research and development and exactly zero in other non manufacturing industries.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/30/ai_jobs_doomsday_may_not_actually_happen_say_boffins/

 

[Ottoville]

Maailmalta on saatu myös ensimmäiset viitteet siitä, miten äärijärjestöt hyödyntävät miehittämättömiä järjestelmiä aseena. ISIS -järjestön on raportoitu käyttäneen sekä ansoitettuja lennokkeja että pudottaneen lennokeista kranaatteja Irakissa. Kranaatti-iskujen kohteena ovat olleet myös siviilit.

 

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pahimmassa tapauksessa jenkeissä tulee pienimuotoinen terminaattorisota

Connecticut lawmakers are considering whether the state should become the first in the country to allow police to use drones outfitted with deadly weapons, a proposal immediately met with concern by civil rights and liberties advocates.


The bill would ban the use of weaponized drones, but exempt police. Details on how law enforcement could use drones with weapons would be spelled out in new rules to be developed by the state Police Officer Standards and Training Council. Officers also would have to receive training before being allowed to use drones with weapons.

“Obviously this is for very limited circumstances,” said Republican state Sen. John Kissel, of Enfield, co-chairman of the Judiciary Committee that approved the measure Wednesday and sent it to the House of Representatives. “We can certainly envision some incident on some campus or someplace where someone is a rogue shooter or someone was kidnapped and you try to blow out a tire.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...w-connecticut-police-to-put-weapons-on-drones

 

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Biologiasta mekaaniseen liikkumiseen drone alustoilla.

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Patria sai UAV-integrointitöitä ulkomailta. CANDL-datalinkkiä koskevaa.
http://www.airforce-technology.com/...ndl-onto-schiebel-camcopter-s-100-uas-5777034
http://patria.fi/fi/media/tiedottee...ehitettyjen-ja-miehittamattomien-ilma-alusten
http://patria.fi/fi/tuotteet-ja-palvelut/c4istar-tiedustelu-valvonta-ja-johtaminen/candl

 

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Spoiler: Autonomiset botit ottaa yhteen

For years, Japan has hosted the ROBO-ONE competitive fighting tournament for biped robots. It’s always a huge amount of fun to watch (even on video), with creative hardware designs, skilled pilots, and the sorts of moves that are physically impossible for humans to pull off. Brand new this year is an autonomous fighting competition, with robots squaring off against each other while their human masters can do nothing but sit back helplessly and watch. It goes pretty much as you might expect, with a lot of not much interspersed with some truly epic moments.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/...rst-ever-autonomous-biped-fighting-tournament

 

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Murtovarma kuljetusrobotti?

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Aika hyvän 3D kartan matalalla lentävä laser-etäisyys mittarilla ja 360 kameralla saa aikaiseksi kohde-alueesta.

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Maailmalta on saatu myös ensimmäiset viitteet siitä, miten äärijärjestöt hyödyntävät miehittämättömiä järjestelmiä aseena. ISIS -järjestön on raportoitu käyttäneen sekä ansoitettuja lennokkeja että pudottaneen lennokeista kranaatteja Irakissa. Kranaatti-iskujen kohteena ovat olleet myös siviilit.

Tuo on vasta ensimmäinen vaihe. Siellä on kumminkin vielä ihminen aktiivisesti ohjaksissa sijoittamassa dronea kohdilleen, ja painamassa laukaisunappia.

Julkisessa jakelussa on paljon teoriatietoa liittyen tietojenkäsittelyyn, tekoälyyn, elektroniikkaan, ohjelmistoihin, signaalinkäsittelyyn... Voidaan myös olettaa, että löytyy tahoja, joilla on noista myös koulutustaustaa ja halua käyttää tappavasti.

Sitten on tietysti olemassa tekoälyyn/koneoppimiseen/algoritmeihin/videonkäsittelyyn liittyviä softa-rakennuspalikoita: http://www.mrpt.org - ja puoli-ilmaista hardwarea: http://www.raspberrypi.org

Jokunen hetki ajassa eteenpäin, niin saadaan "teroille" ensimmäinen etälukittava, kamerapohjainen ohjus, joka lentää suoraa maaliin ja on varustettu yhdellä tai kahdella ontelolla.
Ei ole tässä maailmassa tuokaan enää mikään amerikantemppu vaikkei yksinkertainenkaan tuotekehitysponnistus.

 

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"Israel Just Developed What May be the Most Deadly Unmanned Boat Ever

Israel shares borders with 3 official countries: Syria, Jordan and Egypt, with the Palestinian Authority, and the the Mediterranean Sea in the west. The amount of resources that Israel has poured into technology to defend those borders humanely and effectively is astonishing, and necessary.

This boat, an incredible technological development created by Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd, is another example of Israel’s determination to keep its borders safe at all costs. With thousands of high school graduates entering the IDF each year to defend their country, Israel is doing its best to keep its sons and daughters safe, by land and by sea. With boats such as the violent Mavi Marmara entering Israel’s sea borders in order to promote violence and terror, a boat like this is unequivocally in order."

Linkki, jossa video: http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/i...at-may-be-the-most-deadly-unmanned-boat-ever/

vlad

 

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Huippu

Roboticists are getting quite good at making robots with soft, flexible bodies. There are lots of good reasons to do this: Robots with inherent compliance can be safer to work around, more resilient to damage, and can leverage lots of unique methods of locomotion. The issue with soft robots is that you often have to make compromises when it comes to powering them or getting them to move, because those things usually involve the addition of components that aren’t soft at all, like batteries and actuators.

Over the last week or so, two new methods of soft robot locomotion have shown up in the news: One of them using external magnetic fields, and the other using an electric field to power flapping fins.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/...nd-magnetic-fields-drive-soft-flexible-robots

 

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Getting supplies delivered to troops in remote areas is a big part of what the U.S. military does in terms of logistics. In many cases, it’s too dangerous to send an airplane or helicopter, so the military is always looking for new ways of carrying out such resupply missions.

Earlier this month at the Sea Air Space 2017 trade show in National Harbor, Md., we saw a new concept for remote resupply that the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory has been testing. The TACAD (TACtical Air Delivery) glider is a prototype for an unpowered drone that can fly huge distances to deliver up to 700 pounds (317 kilograms) of whatever you need with high accuracy, and then be abandoned where it lands without a second thought.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/...es-testing-disposable-gliding-delivery-drones

 

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Tällä välin Venäjällä rakennetaan omia terminaattoreita. Muoks: vai ovatko ne kprl niitä Cyloneita?! (Sry, videolinkki lainauksessa ei näy kunnolla, mutta katsokaa artikkelista)

Venäjä opetti robotin ampumaan käsiaseilla - kuin suoraan Terminator-elokuvasta

http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/201704182200104626_ul.shtml
FEDOR-robotti vietiin ampumaradalle.

Avaruusmatkoja varten suunniteltua venäläistä FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) -nimistä robottia on koulutettu myös sotaisampiin tehtäviin.

Asiasta kertoi Venäjän varapääministeri Dmitri Rogozin Twitter-tilillään perjantaina julkaisemallaan videolla, jossa nähdään FEDOR tositoimissa ampumassa kahdella käsiaseella samaan aikaan.

Ensin Rogozin tviittasi robotista kuvan.




Ja sen jälkeen vielä videon. FEDOR nähdään tositoimissa puolitoista minuuttia kestävän videon loppupuolella.

https://twitter.com/x/status/852869162493935617

FEDOR-robotti muistuttaa amerikkalaisista Terminator-elokuvista tuttuja tappajarobotteja, jotka ryhtyivät tekoälyn ohjaamina tuhoamaan ihmiskuntaa.

Rogozin vakuutti, että mitään sellaista Venäjä ei kuitenkaan ole rakentamassa.

- Me emme luo terminaattoria vaan tekoälyä, josta tulee vielä olemaan hyötyä monella eri alueella, Rogozin kertoi brittiläisen The Independent -lehden mukaan.

FEDOR-robotin on tarkoitus matkustaa avaruuteen vuonna 2021.

Robotti osaa jo muun muassa vaihtaa hehkulampun ja ajaa autoa.

JUHO RISSANEN
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Murtovarma kuljetusrobotti?

Kuka nyt rupeaa kadulla vääntämään, robotti pakettiauton kyytiin ja menoksi.
Pitäisi olla joku turvajuttu joka laukeaa jos se menettää otteen maasta. Hitonmoisella äänellä varustettu sireeni tai kyynelkaasupatruuna laukeaa.

 

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Hitonmoisella äänellä varustettu sireeni tai kyynelkaasupatruuna laukeaa.

Sitähän se lupasi sekä jäljittimiä myös.

 

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Mekanisoitua kartoittamista. Parvella tämä asia nopeutuisi huomattavasti ja luulen, että jossain vaiheessa tämä tulee asiaksi jos armeijalla niin ainakin siviileillä, sillä reaalinen 3D kartta on parempi kuin perinteinen kaksiulotteinen taikka topografinen kartta alueesta.