ABSTRACT
Uninhabited ground vehicles (UGVs) have the potential to expand human presence and intent across space and time. A human observer needs to take in different kinds of information from the environment and use that information to both distinguish objects from the space that surrounds them and identify what the objects are. Through this object recognition process, humans are granted the ability to identify assets and threats as they monitor their surrounding space, which in turn enables them to better control their actions. Object recognition is also critical for mission survival when a human controls and monitors a UGV. Perception of motion is also crucial for the functioning and survival of humans. One must be able to perceive the transitional and rotational displacement, velocity, and acceleration of both oneself and others across the spans of space and time. In UGV operation, global space refers to the greater space beyond the immediately perceivable local space surrounding the vehicle.
