At this year’s Association of the US Army (AUSA) annual symposium, held in Washington, DC, from 9-11 October, Rheinmetall is showcasing its PATH Autonomous Kit (A-Kit) on a variety of platforms to demonstrate the system’s ability to transform any vehicle into an autonomous platform.
The system is being shown at AUSA 2023 on the Rheinmetall stand, where it is displayed on an M5 Ripsaw robotic combat vehicle (RCV) equipped with Rheinmetall’s 30 mm Skyranger turret, and also on the partner stands of Tomahawk Robotics and L3Harris Technologies, where variants of Rheinmetall’s Mission Master unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) are on display.
The Rheinmetall PATH A-Kit is a navigation system that facilitates full autonomous movement of vehicles. It is a core element of Rheinmetall’s Mission Master family of autonomous vehicles and combines advanced sensors, advanced algorithms and real-time data analysis to allow vehicles to operate autonomously in a wide range of operating environments.
Although tested and fielded on the Mission master UGV family, the PATH A-Kit can be rapidly integrated onto any existing vehicle or next-generation platform.
In addition to facilitating fully autonomous operations, the PATH A-Kit software includes wireless technology that is loaded onto a Safe Tablet: a modular, configurable device that enables remote operation of any vehicle equipped with the PATH A-Kit. The Safe Tablet can be used to control different mission module payloads (surveillance, weapons, cargo, etc) and is the preferred portable control station for Mission Master UGVs and the mission modules they carry.
