Establishment of a Center for Defense Robotics

This paper presents an overview of the newly formed Joint Center for Unmanned Ground Center (JC-UGV) located at the Army’s Detroit Arsenal in Warren Michigan. The center will provide a focus to ground vehicle robotics by bringing together research and development as well as acquisition and sustainment to manage the life cycle of defense robotic systems. The central mechanize the center will use to bring together all of these aspect is a system integration laboratory (SIL) environment. The robotics SIL will include both hardware and simulation and be based upon a distributed simulation environment. This will allow researchers, industry and Government partners all over the country on very complex problem. By bringing together university, industry and Government to advance defense robotics our customer, the war fighter will be ultimately well served in the end