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 == Military operations: ==
-This one of the most desired application domains, where human is a constant danger of being hit by hostile fire as well as being under highly physical conditions and stress. Therefore, remotely operated UGVs are rather commonly used by different armies all over the world. The main challenges being tackled is to remove soldiers from the line of fire i.e. while the soldier is undercover he can use remote control and operate an armoured or armed UGV. Thus, both soldier safety and operational goals are met. Unfortunately, due to the complexity of military operations and due to unstructured environmental conditions, fully autonomous system is yet to come. The majority of the military UGVs are fully remote-controlled, where human-operator is constantly looking after UGVs operation. A good example of military UGV is Milrem system (www.milrem.com) developed jointly by Estonian and Finnish companies, enabling different configurations, modularity and variable control options.
+This one of the most desired application domains, where human is a constant danger of being hit by hostile fire as well as being under highly physical conditions and stress. Therefore, remotely operated UGVs are rather commonly used by different armies all over the world. The main challenges being tackled is to remove soldiers from the line of fire i.e. while the soldier is undercover he can use remote control and operate an armoured or armed UGV. Thus, both soldier safety and operational goals are met. Unfortunately, due to the complexity of military operations and due to unstructured environmental conditions, a fully autonomous system is yet to come. The majority of the military UGVs is fully remote-controlled, where human-operator is constantly looking after UGVs operation. A good example of military UGV is the Milrem system (www.milrem.com) developed jointly by Estonian and Finnish companies, enabling different configurations, modularity and variable control options.
 == Logistics: ==
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 == Industrial cleaning: ==
-Industrial cleaning is one of the areas that seem to be obvious to be enhanced by fully autonomous systems – cleaning robots. There is a major shift already and several producers have announced their products. Among them, some well-known brands within the domain might be noticed – Nilfisk (https://new.nilfisk.com/global/campaigns/intelligent-cleaning/), Hako (https://www.hako.co.uk/machines/robotic-cleaning-equipment/), Karcher (https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2019/11/19/brain-corp-partners-with-karcher-to-develop-new-autonomous-floor-cleaner/26781/) and others.
+Industrial cleaning is one of the areas that seem to be obvious to be enhanced by fully autonomous systems – cleaning robots. There is a major shift already and several producers have announced their products. Among them, some well-known brands within the domain might be noticed –
-The technology itself not always is developed by the producer itself. For instance, Brain Corp (https://www.braincorp.com/), develops autonomy technology but not cleaning machines. Therefore, mutually beneficial development is achieved.  In terms of technology different approaches might be notices – a traditional approach, where robot control is achieved through real-time data acquisition, robot dynamics modelling and action planning, while Brain Corp relies more on machine learning. Thereby, one can see the same technology diversity as in the case of autonomous cars.
+Nilfisk (https://new.nilfisk.com/global/campaigns/intelligent-cleaning/), Hako (https://www.hako.co.uk/machines/robotic-cleaning-equipment/),
+Karcher (https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2019/11/19/brain-corp-partners-with-karcher-to-develop-new-autonomous-floor-cleaner/26781/) and others.
+The technology itself not always is developed by the producer itself. For instance, Brain Corp (https://www.braincorp.com/), develops autonomous technology but not cleaning machines. Therefore, mutually beneficial development is achieved.  In terms of technology different approaches might be notices – a traditional approach, where robot control is achieved through real-time data acquisition, robot dynamics modelling and action planning, while Brain Corp relies more on machine learning. Thereby, one can see the same technology diversity as in the case of autonomous cars.
 Another challenge is the cooperativeness of individual robotic systems, which is also developed by several technology providers like Squad Robotics (https://www.squad-robotics.com/).
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-Cooperativeness is still among wanted but no yet available technologies in cleaning domain.
+Cooperativeness is still among wanted but no yet available technologies in the cleaning domain.
 == Agriculture / Horticulture: ==
-While agriculture seems to be one of the most mechanized and automated, in terms of robotics it rather weakly developed. There are a lot of discussions and research communities like ICT-Agri-food (https://www.ictagrifood.eu/) community, but still due to various reasons the number of deployed robots is insignificant.
+While agriculture seems to be one of the most mechanized and automated, in terms of robotics it rather weakly developed. There are a lot of discussions and research communities like the ICT-Agri-food (https://www.ictagrifood.eu/) community, but still, due to various reasons, the number of deployed robots is insignificant.
-A good example is FarmBot system (https://farm.bot/), which provides the full cycle of growing vegetables at peoples back yard.
+A good example is a FarmBot system (https://farm.bot/), which provides the full cycle of growing vegetables in peoples back yard.
-Unfortunately, most of the systems being currently on the market cover only small fraction of whole food production workflow – transport, quality control, fertilization, harvesting or other limited functionality. This is a consequence of high complexity of the food production domain.
+Unfortunately, most of the systems being currently on the market cover only a small fraction of the whole food production workflow – transport, quality control, fertilization, harvesting or other limited functionality. This is a consequence of the high complexity of the food production domain.
-However, among all of the application milking farm keeping is on of the most automated including feeding robots and cleaning roots that are fully autonomous – Lely automation solutions are among the most advanced currently available (https://www.lely.com/).
+However, among all of the application milking, farm keeping is one of the most automated including feeding robots and cleaning roots that are fully autonomous – Lely automation solutions are among the most advanced currently available (https://www.lely.com/).

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