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The European Commission's European Defense Industrial Development Program (EDIDP) is a consortium with several large defense, communications and cybersecurity companies as well as medium-sized companies from the high-tech sector with the development of an integrated modular unmanned ground system (iMUGS). ) has been commissioned. With a total cost of 32.6 million euros, the order is funded with 30.6 million euros from the EDIDP.

Das Projekt wird von Estland geleitet. Die technischen Anforderungen wurden mit Finnland, Lettland, Deutschland, Belgien, Frankreich und Spanien abgestimmt. Die Länder planen, die restlichen zwei Millionen Euro des Projektbudgets zu finanzieren.

Led by Milrem Robotics, a modular and scalable architecture for hybrid manned and unmanned systems is being developed. The architecture is intended to become the basis for standardizing a Europe-wide ecosystem for air and ground platforms, command, control and communication equipment, sensors, payloads and algorithms. The prototype system will utilize an existing unmanned ground vehicle – Milrem Robotics’ Themis – and a specific list of payloads.

Das Ergebnis des Projekts wird im Rahmen von Militärübungen der teilnehmenden Mitgliedstaaten oder auf separaten Testgeländen unter Einsatzbedingungen und relevanten klimatischen Bedingungen demonstriert.

During the project phase, operational know-how will be collected and concepts will be developed for the combined use of manned and unmanned means, taking into account the ethical aspects applicable to robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. State-of-the-art virtual and constructive simulation environments are also set up.

iMUGS will be a collaboration between 14 parties: Project coordinator Milrem Robotics (Estonia), GT Cyber ​​Technologies (Estonia), Safran Electronics & Defense (France), Nexter Systems (France), Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (Germany), Diehl Defense (Germany) , Bittium Wireless (Finland), Insta DefSec (Finland), (Un)Manned (Belgium), dotOcean (Belgium), Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (Latvia), GMV Aerospace and Defense (Spain), the Estonian Military Academy and the Royal Military Academy of Belgium .

Gerhard Heiming

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