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1/3 Unmanned by 2015
Advertising lapel pin. Artwork: Kairos Automomi
IT IS HAPPENING ALL AROUND US
Things are heating up. Companies are mentioning the DARPA Urban Challenge and autonomous vehicles in their advertinsing. Video clips of vehicles driving themselves are everywhere like YouTube. Automobile companies on TV are advertising "Active Savety Systems", 14 of them on one model of car. Companies like Kairos Autonomi are quoting PUBLIC LAW 106-398, SEC. 220(A)(2) - OCT. 30 2000 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACE, FISCAL YEAR 2001 in their advertising (and ralling people to meet the conversion deadline, which is rapidly approaching) :
"It shall be a goal of the Armed Forces to achieve the fielding of unmanned, remotely controlled technolgy such that ... by 2015 one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles are unmanned."
Driverless Conversion kit from Kairos Autonomi
THE MOON
This morning on the way to my day job, the moon was the bigger and brighter than usual and it was a strange feeling to realize that it is lunar rock and lunar dirt which is now actually within reach. The Google Lunar X-Prize teams are working to land rovers there so that we can dig in the lunar soil from the comfort of our computers here on Earth. For a moment I could actually feel what it might be like to roll a rover across the Moons surface and leave tire tracks along a route that I have chosen. I can tell you, it was great fun to think about doing that, very soon. If you would like to do that, consider joining one of the GLXP teams or starting one of your own.
MORE, LATER
I go back over my past columns and change them after they have been published. With the live access I have to them I can correct any errors that I find in real time. This is great fun to do even though people who thought they have already read them might not go back to see what has been done to them, I know what anyone who is just discovering them will find the improved version. I sometimes change a picture when I find a better one or improve the writing. Add material to some things that were too short and shorten things that ran too long. Some of you might have see the content of the columns changing if you refresh the page while I am working on it like this one which has been changed several times this evening. Suggestions are always welcome.
More, later.
GO ROBOTS !
Paul F. Grayson - Chief Engineer
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL MAGIC, LLC
Racing to build technology that saves soldier's lives.
390 4-Mile Rd. S.
Traverse City, MI 49686-8411
(231) 946-0187, (231) 883-4463 Cell
pgrayson@aimagic.org
AIM: http://aimagic.org
Robot Club: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/robotcluboftraversecitymi/
CE Magazine: http://www.controleng.com/blog/1180000318.html
pfg: (s),(l), tt
1/3 Unmanned by 2015
October 10, 2008
Advertising lapel pin. Artwork: Kairos Automomi
IT IS HAPPENING ALL AROUND US
Things are heating up. Companies are mentioning the DARPA Urban Challenge and autonomous vehicles in their advertinsing. Video clips of vehicles driving themselves are everywhere like YouTube. Automobile companies on TV are advertising "Active Savety Systems", 14 of them on one model of car. Companies like Kairos Autonomi are quoting PUBLIC LAW 106-398, SEC. 220(A)(2) - OCT. 30 2000 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACE, FISCAL YEAR 2001 in their advertising (and ralling people to meet the conversion deadline, which is rapidly approaching) :
"It shall be a goal of the Armed Forces to achieve the fielding of unmanned, remotely controlled technolgy such that ... by 2015 one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles are unmanned."
Driverless Conversion kit from Kairos Autonomi
THE MOON
This morning on the way to my day job, the moon was the bigger and brighter than usual and it was a strange feeling to realize that it is lunar rock and lunar dirt which is now actually within reach. The Google Lunar X-Prize teams are working to land rovers there so that we can dig in the lunar soil from the comfort of our computers here on Earth. For a moment I could actually feel what it might be like to roll a rover across the Moons surface and leave tire tracks along a route that I have chosen. I can tell you, it was great fun to think about doing that, very soon. If you would like to do that, consider joining one of the GLXP teams or starting one of your own.
MORE, LATER
I go back over my past columns and change them after they have been published. With the live access I have to them I can correct any errors that I find in real time. This is great fun to do even though people who thought they have already read them might not go back to see what has been done to them, I know what anyone who is just discovering them will find the improved version. I sometimes change a picture when I find a better one or improve the writing. Add material to some things that were too short and shorten things that ran too long. Some of you might have see the content of the columns changing if you refresh the page while I am working on it like this one which has been changed several times this evening. Suggestions are always welcome.
More, later.
GO ROBOTS !
Paul F. Grayson - Chief Engineer
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL MAGIC, LLC
Racing to build technology that saves soldier's lives.
390 4-Mile Rd. S.
Traverse City, MI 49686-8411
(231) 946-0187, (231) 883-4463 Cell
pgrayson@aimagic.org
AIM: http://aimagic.org
Robot Club: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/robotcluboftraversecitymi/
CE Magazine: http://www.controleng.com/blog/1180000318.html
pfg: (s),(l), tt
Posted by Paul Grayson on October 10, 2008 | Comments (0)
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