XAV
Encyclopedia
XAV is a highly-maneuverable, light mechanized, four-wheeled unmanned vehicle
that is capable of being controlled from a remote station and used for field reconnaissance. It is currently under joint development by South Korea
's Agency for Defense Development (ADD)
and Ministry of Information and Communication with the budget of approximately $35 million dollars, and is planned to be fielded by 2012.
There will be two variants of the unit, one for battlefield reconnaissance
missions and another for light anti-personnel combat
missions.
.
, fire fighting
and construction
.
Unmanned vehicle
Unmanned vehicles can refer to:* Unmanned aerial vehicle* Unmanned combat air vehicle* Unmanned ground vehicle* Unmanned space vehicle* Unmanned surface vehicle* Unmanned underwater vehicle- See also :* Unmanned...
that is capable of being controlled from a remote station and used for field reconnaissance. It is currently under joint development by South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
's Agency for Defense Development (ADD)
Agency for Defense Development (ADD)
Agency for Defense Development was established in August 1970 under the banner of the self-reliable defense. ADD is the one and only national agency for R&D in defense technology contributing to enforcing the national defense, to improving the national R&D capacity. and to fostering the domestic...
and Ministry of Information and Communication with the budget of approximately $35 million dollars, and is planned to be fielded by 2012.
There will be two variants of the unit, one for battlefield reconnaissance
Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance is the military term for exploring beyond the area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about enemy forces or features of the environment....
missions and another for light anti-personnel combat
Combat
Combat, or fighting, is a purposeful violent conflict meant to establish dominance over the opposition, or to terminate the opposition forever, or drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed....
missions.
Controls
The unit has GPS inputs, and can be controlled via remote or can move on its own using artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
.
Possible technology transfers
Choi Chang-gon, the head researcher of the project, also hinted that the amount of research poured into developing and building the XAV might extend into civilian uses, such as policePolice
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
, fire fighting
Fire fighting
Firefighting is the act of extinguishing fires. A firefighter fights fires to prevent loss of life, and/or destruction of property and the environment...
and construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
.