In this issue, the members of the Combat Systems Department inform the defence community and (military) research institutes about their current and future research projects. The contributions cover a large part of the field of technological academic research that military organisations require

This paper describes segmentation based on motion. A group of (connected) pixels that move together is assumed to belong to one object. One advantage of using otion is that an object that consists of different parts is detected as one object, whereas f for instance colour differences are used the same …

Military sensors are being used to create situational awareness. In a process of multi sensor data fusion, a sensor grid containing a multitude of similar and different sensor types contributes to the overall awareness by gathering and combining input data. Such data fusion has been applied in numerous …

The authors report on a new research project on cooperative robots, which is particularly suited to student participation. The research on cooperative robot systems of the Combat Systems section is still at a preliminary stage. A system for the determination of the relative position of robots hasalready …