TALOS Transportable Adaptable Patrol for Land Border Surveillance

Like existing surveillance systems, TALOS is going to use sensors allowing to detect people, vehicles and hazardous substances, crossing the unregulated land border. Innovative concept behind the project is that the sensors will be carried by unmanned vehicles having a high degree of autonomy. This will give TALOS the advantage of cost effectiveness and surveillance capabilities not available to conventional systems based on static sensors.

TALOS project consortium is formed of experienced research teams from industry, research and academia from Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Poland, Romania, Spain and Turkey.

TALOS innovation:

• Scalability
• Autonomous capability based on sets of rules (artificial intelligence)
• Mobility/transportability
• Tactical learning/adaptation behaviour
• No need for fixed infrastructure or fences
• Response to intrusion in minutes

The role of the Department of Automation and Aeronautical Systems, Warsaw University of Technology is to design and implement the UGV navigation system and contribution to the UGV communication system. The Department is also responsible for creation and maintaining the public web site and organisation of workshops for end users.

www.talos-border.eu

TALOS is an international research project co-funded by the European Commission (EC) under the 7th Framework Programme in Security priority. "Inteligentny nadzór i bezpieczeństwo granic" (FP7/2007-2013) grant nr 218081