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Military Robotics MAY
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Advanced innovative technological systems
shaping the future of military operations
HOLIDAY INN REGENTS PARK I LONDON I UK
NEW FOR 2014:
21st - 22nd
2014
CHAIRMAN:
Dr Bill Powers, Research Fellow, Center for Emerging Threats
& Opportunities (CETO), Potomac Institute for Policy Studies,
US Marine Corps
• Discuss new technology being
developed and how to
implement it within the military
EXPERT SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
• Understand the operational
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew A. Dooley, Chief of Lethality
Branch, Army Capabilities Integration Center, US Army
challenges currently facing
military personnel
Lieutenant Colonel Hilmi Tekinsoy (Ret),
Former Commander for Turkish Armed Forces,
Freelance Defense & Security Consultant
• Analyse the current
developments surrounding EOD
Professor Rafal Zbikowski, Professor of Control
Engineering, Cranfield University
• Develop ideas to maximise
interoperability
General Thierry Cambournac (Ret), Formerly Inspector
General of the Armed Forces, French Army,
VP Human Resources, FINAERO
• Network with key industry
professionals and military
personnel
• Gain insight in to the British Army's
operational challenges when
using the CUTLASS programme
• Hear future trends, challenges
and outlooks for Military Robotics
Bradley Jay Strawser, Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Department of Defense Analysis,
US Naval Postgraduate School
Lieutenant Colonel Sándor ZSÍROS, Hungarian Army,
Head of Technologies Department,
NATO EOD Centre of Excellence
Dr Peter Sapaty, Chief Research Scientist,
Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
20th May 2014 I Holiday Inn Regents Park, London, UK I 12.00 – 17.30
Ethical Debates over the Future of Military Technology
Workshop Leader: Bradley Jay Strawser, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Defense Analysis,
US Naval Postgraduate School
(Bradley is hosting this workshop independently)
www.milrobotics.com
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2. MILITARY ROBOTICS
www.milrob
Day One | Wednesday 21st May 2014
8.30
Registration & Coffee
11.30
Emerging Concepts for ISR Robots at the Squad Level
• Common Challenges to the Individual Soldier/Squad in the
Contemporary Operating Environment; Defining the problem
appropriately before we invest
• "Squad-X" and emerging ISR robot solutions; Current U.S. Army
concepts
• Current Challenges to Autonomy in Small Robotic Platforms;
What we must overcome to make these ideas a reality by 2025
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew A. Dooley, Chief of Lethality Branch,
Army Capabilities Integration Center, US Army
9.00
Chairman's Opening Remarks
12.10
Networking lunch
13.30
Semi-Autonomous Capabilities and Robotic Tools in EOD
Operations
• Robotic Tool Changing Capabilities
• Semi-Autonomous Robotic EOD Capabilities
• Manual Robotic Toolkit Operations
Mark Gordon, Board of Directors, Association for Unmanned
Vehicle Systems International
14.10
Autonomous UGV mobility: Terrain assessment via multispectral
imaging
• Autonomous navigation of UGVs
• Assessment of terrain safety in front of UGVs based on the
terrain’s geometric shape
• Remote (multispectral or thermal imaging) sensors mounted on
the UGV for situation awareness
• Assessment of terrain trafficability with the remote, on-board
sensors
Professor Rafal Zbikowski, Professor of Control Engineering,
Cranfield University
- "Moral Judgment" arguments
14.50
Afternoon Tea
both those for and against autonomous military technology
15.20
The Royal Navy's Sea King ASaC
• Recent Airborne ISR Missions
• Advantages of Multi-Mission ISR Aircraft
• The Future of Royal Naval Airborne ISR
Lieutenant Commander Darrell Hannam, ISR Instructor,
Royal Navy
16.00
Regulatory Requirements for Military Robotics
• Training requirements for RPAs
• Airspace rules for RPAs
• The value of simulation
• Recurrent training needs
Major General (Ret) George Harrison, Principle Research
Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute
16.40
Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Dr. Bill Powers, Research Fellow, Center for Emerging Threats &
Opportunities (CETO), Potomac Institute for Policy Studies,
US Marine Corps
9.10
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Robotics and the Marine Corps in an Era of Austerity
• Vision
• Priorities, Gaps, and Solutions
• Core Characteristics and goals
• Weaponization and future insights
• Roadmap/Concept of Employment (CoE)
• Budget Realities
Dr. Bill Powers, Research Fellow, Center for Emerging Threats &
Opportunities (CETO), Potomac Institute for Policy Studies,
US Marine Corps
9.50
Ethical Arguments For and Against Autonomous Military
Technology: The Present State of the Debate
• Most arguments in favor of such technology rely on crude, but
powerful, consequentialist arguments.
• The arguments against are of two kinds: conditional and
principled
• Of the principled objections, there are three main lines of
argument:
- "Responsibility Gap"- type arguments
- "Respect"- based arguments
• Review of the strengths and weaknesses for these arguments,
Bradley Jay Strawser, Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Department of Defense Analysis, US Naval Postgraduate School*
10.30
Morning Coffee
10.50
Robotics in Operations: Reality, Perspectives and Limits
• Operational viewpoint - what is the need of armed forces in terms
of robotics in Intelligence, combat, combat support and logistics?
• What are the possible R&D goals for the years to come
• What are the limits to the use of robotics in the field
General Thierry Cambournac (Ret), Formerly Inspector General
of the Armed Forces, French Army, VP Human Resources,
FINAERO
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3. botics.com
8.30
Registration & Coffee
9.00
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Dr. Bill Powers, Research Fellow, Center for Emerging Threats &
Opportunities (CETO), Potomac Institute for Policy Studies,
US Marine Corps
9.10
9.50
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Unmanned Ground Vehicle repair operations in combat zones
• US Army has been at war in two combat zone for ten years,
robot have been there from the beginning
• How we support currently in Afghanistan
• Challenges of training and supporting non-standard military
equipment
Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Dring, Product Manager,
Unmanned Ground Vehicle, Robotic Systems Joint Program
Office, US Military
Turkish view on the standardization of military robotics and an
overview of interoperable applications of unmanned vehicles in
Turkish Defense Industry
• General overview of military robotics industry in Turkey
• Turkish efforts and contribution regarding military robotics
standardization among NATO countries
• Various interoperable ground and naval unmanned vehicle
applications developed and produced in Turkey
Lieutenant Colonel Hilmi Tekinsoy (Ret), Former Commander for
Turkish Armed Forces, Freelance Defense & Security Consultant
10.30
Morning Coffee
10.50
An Academic View of Military Robotics Development
• What is a robot as opposed to an autonomous platform
• Can we use robots to augment a downsized UK armed forces?
• Do we really know what we need from robot systems?
• Using very low cost prototypes to explore new ideas
• Some examples of land systems robotic research concepts built
using Lego
• Summary
Dr Stuart Dowling, Lecturer in C-IED and Military Electronics,
Cranfield University
11.30
From Manned to Smart Unmanned Systems: A unified Transition
• Massive cooperative robotics under Spatial Grasp Technology
(SGT)
• Expressing top semantics of distributed asymmetric operations
in a high-level language suitable to both manned and
unmanned units
• Organizing advanced human-robotic missions under
automated command and control provided by SGT
• Comparison with cancelled Future Combat Systems: Simplicity,
integrity, and ubiquity against rigidity of classical military
organizations
Dr Peter Sapaty, Chief Research Scientist, National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine
Day Two | Thursday 22nd May 2014
12.10
Networking lunch
13.30
The NATO EOD COE Program of Work activities with EOD robots
• The scope of the NATO EOD COE
• NATO EOD Demonstration and Trial 2014
• Testing evaluation of EOD robots
Lieutenant Colonel Sándor ZSÍROS, Hungarian Army, Head of
Technologies Department, NATO EOD Centre of Excellence
14.10
Threats, Robotics and EOD Technologies for CBRN IEDs
• Improvised CBR IED threats - groups, TTPs (tactics, techniques &
procedures) and selected examples of improvised CBRN
deployment
• EOD Response to CBR devices – how equipment on robots is
used to identify CBRN materials, enable analysis and apply
render-safe procedures (RSPs)
• Invasive versus non-invasive techniques for RSPs
• Training in using equipment for CBRN EOD – special challenges
to be overcome
Andy Oppenheimer, Consultant, CBRNE & Counter-Terrorism
14.50
Afternoon Tea
15.20
Revolution Rise of Robotic Humanoids
• What can robotics do for the military?
• How can robotics prevent high end point of financial
opportunity?
• Future of technology and military actions
• Finalizing of whole concept and its functionality of such
declared functions of humanoid and military based services
Dr. Igor Povse, Owner, Blue Scientists Airlines Ltd. Department of
Space Agency and International Research London UK
16.00
Robotic Competitions - Lessons learnt from 8 years of ELROB
• Short overview of existing competitions
• Pros & Cons
• Possibilities for users & procurement
• Bridging the gap between users, industry and academia
• Outlook on future robotic competitions (i.e. EURATHLON,
Russian Robot
• Competitions)
Frank Schneider, Organizer of the European Robot Trial (ELROB)
16.40
Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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4. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
20TH MAY 2014
Holiday Inn Regent Park, London, UK
12.00 – 17.30
Ethical Debates over the
Future of Military Technology
Workshop Leader:
Bradley Jay Strawser, Assistant Professor of
Philosophy, Department of Defense Analysis,
US Naval Postgraduate School
(Bradley is hosting this workshop independently)
Overview:
In this workshop we will examine the primary lines of
ethical debate over newly emerging and future military
technologies. This includes debates over moral
responsibility gaps and moral judgment issues for the
employment of future autonomous systems, and the
various ethical concerns as well as potential moral
advantages for the increased use of remote weapon
platforms such as UAVs.
Programme:
12:00
Coffee and introductions
1:00
Remote weapon technology
• The potential moral gains
• Litany of moral risks posed by UAVs
12:30
2.15
2:45
4:15
5:30
Overview: The debate
• How and why is ever changing military
technology impacting the broader debate
over the ethics of war?
• Is traditional just war theory able to
accommodate the future of warfare?
Networking Break
Autonomous military technology
• What are the primary moral objections that
can be brought against autonomous
military technology?
• Responsibility gaps, moral judgment issues,
technology issues, and more.
• What are the potential moral advantages
such technology could potentially bring?
Concluding discussion: The future of military
technology and the human warrior
End of Workshop
About the workshop host
Bradley Jay Strawser is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy
in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval
Postgraduate School and a Research Associate with
Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed
Conflict. Dr. Strawser taught previously at the University of
Connecticut and the US Air Force Academy, and he
served as a Resident Research Fellow at the Admiral
James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. He has
written on the ethics of war, just war theory, and related
themes in military ethics. He has also published in
metaphysics, ancient philosophy, and political
philosophy. His work has appeared in such peer-reviewed
journals as Analysis, Philosophia, Journal of Military Ethics,
Public Affairs Quarterly, Epoché, and the Journal of
Human Rights, among others. He has also been featured
in several popular media outlets such as the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, the UK Guardian, National
Public Radio, and the BBC World Service, on such topics
as the ethics of cyber warfare and unmanned aerial
vehicles. He recently published Killing By Remote Control:
The Ethics of an Unmanned Military (Oxford University
Press, 2012), a collected volume on the moral questions
surrounding the use of UAVs. He is currently working on a
manuscript defending revisionist just war theory.

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