<title>Design and application of a robotic vehicle driving package for the HMMWV: Demo I to Project Mustang</title>

Abstract

In 1994/95, the Project Mustang unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) was used in two field training exercises to introduce soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas, to the capabilities of developmental UGVs. The UGV used in these exercises was a high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV) platform, mounted with a mission payload to perform reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition (RSTA), and a robotic vehicle driving package (RVDP) to perform path retrace (called retrotraverse) and teleoperation. The mission scenario at Ft. Hood had a soldier manually deploy the UGV to the mission site and set up the RSTA mission payload. Retrotraverse was then used to assist in retrieval of the UGV at the conclusion of the mission. This paper describes the design and application of the RVDP, used to control the driving of the HMMWV, from initial development in 1990/92 for Demo I to Project Mustang in 1994/95.© (1996) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.