Conceptual Design of a UAV-UGV Autonomous Collaborative Robot System

Abstract

Collaborative robots (cobots) are in the focus of attention since many years being applied widely in different fields of the industry and national economies. In classical meaning and content of the word, cobots are cooperating with human operators in shared space working for the common purpose of the effective production of goods or other products. This article will extend the meaning of the word cobot to the collaboration of two autonomous robot systems, such as ground and air robots working together in close and shared space to execute different safety and security missions.