Remote Expeditionary Autonomous Pioneer System (REAPr)

Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) require a variety of operational capability including safe refueling of ground vehicles and aircraft, construction site preparation, trail and mine clearing, material handling, defeating explosive hazards, creating counter mobility obstacles, placement of lethal area denial assets, fire suppression and auxiliary power generation. Accomplishing these very different missions requires a variety of commercial and special purpose equipment. To minimize the required equipment load and manpower, a compact base robotic unit with quick connect attachments is proposed. For the proposed effort, the ACHS diesel engine, hydraulic system, track drives, forks, mast, laser imaging system, computing resources and electronically controlled servos will be integrated into the Remote Expeditionary Autonomous Pioneering (REAPr) robot design. This will dramatically reduce technical risk and the overall effort required to design, simulate build and test.