TALOS

Transportable Autonomous patrol for Land bOrder Surveillance

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The main objective of TALOS multidisciplinary project is to develop and field test the innovative concept of a mobile, modular, scalable, autonomous and adaptive system for protecting European borders. The conventional border protection systems are based mainly on expensive ground facilities installed along the entire length of the border used only to observe, detect and warn. This infrastructure is complemented by human patrols, where there is an access to the border line. The system developed within the TALOS project will be more versatile, efficient, flexible and cost effective. The complete system applies both aerial and ground unmanned vehicles, supervised by command and control centre, but in the TALOS project the emphasis will be put on application of UGV, communication and ability to command and control. The ground platforms will be both the watching stations and the first reaction patrols, which will inform the Control and Command Centre and an intruder about her/his situation, and will undertake the proper measures to stop the illegal action almost autonomously with supervision of border guard officers. The most important features of the system are scalability, autonomous operation, mobility and adaptability. It will be easy to “scale’ the system to the local requirements such as border length and topographic conditions. The system elements would operate autonomously using the set of rules defined by Command and Control centre. The rules modified from time to time during system operation will adapt the system to the variable tactics of border crossing (in the specific patrol scenario, area of operation, border topography, etc.) and will constantly improve performance in the long term. The consortium is formed of an experienced research teams from industry, research and academia from Belgium, Finland, France, Israel, Poland and Turkey, with established close links with end users (border guards), which gives good prospects for project success.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Patrolling the European Union's massive land borders is no mean task, prompting an EU-funded project to develop prototype unmanned vehicles to do the job. This is a giant leap for advanced robotics research.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Conventional border protection systems depend mainly on ground facilities installed along the entire length of any given frontiers, complemented by human patrols. However, this is very costly.

In a bid to radically change how the EU manages its frontiers, the 'Transportable autonomous patrol for land border surveillance' (TALOS) project set out to develop a prototype land-border surveillance system based on unmanned vehicles. The system detects, tracks and helps to apprehend people attempting to cross a border illegally.

Funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the project developed a system that is adaptable to the diversity of the EU's frontiers, as well as being transportable and cost effective.

During its first year, TALOS identified the system's requirements and defined its general architecture. In the second year, the partners worked intensively on designing unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and an unmanned unit command centre (UUCC). In the third year, the project integrated the various components into functional UGV and UUCC units. A state-of-the-art communications subsystem was also developed. Throughout the process, an end user advisory board provided input from the stakeholders who will actually deploy the technology.

The final result of TALOS should be demonstration prototypes of two UGCs and a UUCC, to be put through their paces during a simulation. TALOS will make the surveillance of Europe's enormous external borders easier and cheaper. In addition, it will help pave the way for the development and integration of advanced robotics in other areas of industry.