Digital Infantry Battlefield Solution. Introduction to Ground Robotics

128 pages

2016

Andzans, Maris, Ugis Romanovs. Digital Infantry Battlefield Solution. Introduction to Ground Robotics. DIBS project. Part I. Riga: Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2016.

The book consists of collection of opinions by various authors from different countries and diverse research backgrounds to provide a multi-faceted review of the development of unmanned ground systems (UGS) in military use from different perspectives – to cover both the retrospective and prospective development of UGS as well as the current issues and challenges from military, technical and legal perspectives.

The book underlines two important aspects – the uncontested significance of the technological progress in the military field, and the necessity for the interaction and collaboration of experts from different spheres, as well as the cooperation of governmental and non-governmental sectors to be able to keep up with the military technological progress.

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