Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV)

Definition:
An UGV is any piece of mechanized equipment that moves across the surface of the ground and
serves as means of carrying or transporting something, but explicitly doesn't carry a human being.
A long pole technological challenge of this systems is or has been the area of navigation and
control. Within that context, a teleoperated vehicle system is one in which navigational guidance is
transmitted to the vehicle from an externally situated human operator; an autonomous vehicle is
one which determines its own course using on board sensors an processing resources; the name
supervisory control is often given to the myriad of control schemes which combines inputs from
both: an external human operator and an on board sensors to determine the path. The automated
guided vehicles , or AGVs are those vehicles whose path of motion is physically predetermined
(either mechanically constrained, as by rails, or or inflexibly following some pre-marked path.
Machines with tools
A number of applications call for machines that can move to a desired area and then perform some
sort of work involving manipulation or using any of a variety of tools ("effectors" is the robotic
terminology). The issues involved in performing manipulation or other work without a human
present often dominate over the UGV navigation and control issues, and tend to be applicationspecific.
Common UGV concepts
Lane departure warning system: In road-transport terminology, a lane departure warning system is a
mechanism designed to warn a driver when the vehicle begins to move out of its lane (unless a turn
signal is on in that direction) on freeways and arterial roads.