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The initiative is part of the NATO's Science & Technology Organization (former Research & Technology Organization, RTO) to promote the use of robotic technologies by defense users.
STO decided to start the exploratory team ET.BX in the area of robotics to determine whether the member states' research teams can contribute to the NATO mission. STO runs the initiative under its panel System Analysis and Studies (SAS), which is part of the Science and Technology Board (STB, RTB). In November 2011 the exploratory team ET.BX was officially approved by the RTB and promoted to a Task Group SAS-RTG-097.
The Czech Technical University in Prague (briefly CTU), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics (head Prof. Vladimir Marik) responded to this initiative from NATO/Czech Ministry of Defense and currently leads the SAS-RTG-097 Task Group activites. This new STO activity starts in January 2012 aiming to fulfill the following objectives:
- Analyze the gap between operational requirements and technical possibilities and how they relate to the innovated NATO LTCRs.
- Bridge the natural gap between cutting edge of technology and military operational needs.
- Provide analytical and technological / operational experimentation support for the robotics concept development and testing.
- Organize a NATO supported symposium or conference to demonstrate cutting-edge robotics technologies to military users.
- Make bidirectional working links to the European Commission R&D activities in the area of robotics.
- Open possibilities for the new robotics research motivated by military needs and funded by third parties, both public bodies and industries.
- An additional goal is to identify human-robot interaction requirements and determine requirements for potential technology developments, and identify needs for development of non-traditional capabilities.
The SAS-RTG-097 Task Group activites are approved and planned to last till January 2015.
Maintained by Michal
Reinstein
Last update:
20.02. 2014