Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel are some of the most highly trained people
in the military, with a job description that spans defusing unexploded ordnance to protecting …

In this paper, a survey is being conducted on the investigation of a four-class taxonomy
related to security robots that appeared over the past three decades. The survey …

While a number of excellent review articles on military robots have appeared in existing
literature, this paper focuses on a distinct sub-space of related problems: small military …

This research explores interactions between Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel
and the robots used every day. It was designed to richly describe the nuances of these …

This chapter provides a critical analysis of the potential short-and long-term cultural,
emotional, and ethical outcomes facing Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists …

Bluetooth, a protocol designed to replace peripheral cables, has grown steadily over the last
five years and includes a variety of applications. The Bluetooth protocol operates on a wide …

We describe our vision, goals and plans for HARNESS, a distributed, reconfigurable and
heterogeneous computing environment that supports dynamically adaptable parallel …

Current man-portable robotic systems are too heavy for troops to pack during extended
missions in rugged terrain and typically require more user support than can be justified by …

This paper evaluates collaborative tasking tools that facilitate dynamic sharing of
responsibilities between robot and operator throughout a search and detection task. The …

The purpose of this research was to examine the dynamics that form when humans and
robots work together in a high-stress combat environment, and compare and contrast these …