Concept of creating automated control systems for military units of unmanned and robotic systems in a heterogeneous forces group

Konstantin V. Kozlov¹, Sergey I. Makarenko², Vladimir R. Milov³, Igor V. Skripnik³

¹"Institute of Telecommunications" Company.
²Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University 'LETI'.
³PRIMA Research & Production Enterprise, LLC.

DOI 10.24412/2410-9916-2026-2-001-049

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Problem statement: Russia's special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine has led to a change in the approaches to warfare by military units (MU) from all branches of the armed forces. A distinctive feature of the SMO is the massive use of robotic systems (RS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The experience of the SMO has shown that there is an urgent need to create automated control systems (ACS) for military units (MCU) equipped with unmanned (uncrewed) systems (UCS) and RS for various purposes, and to integrate them into the command and control system (CCCS) of heterogeneous forces group. The purpose of the work is to develop a concept and author's idea for creating ACS MU with UCS/RS and their integration into CCCS of heterogeneous forces group. Novelty consists in the formation of original author's proposals for the creation of ACS MU with UCS/RS on the experience of the SMO and a set of organizational and technical measures for the automation of inter-service and inter-branch interaction in a heterogeneous forces group. In the known papers on the creation of the CCCS and ACS MU, such a level of elaboration of the issues of inter-service interaction and management of the heterogeneous forces group is insufficiently covered. Result: the article reveals the main trends in the development of interdepartmental, inter-service heterogeneous forces group, which cause an increase in the requirements for control and communication, presents the authors' opinion on solving the problems of ensuring information interaction between the control points (CP) of MU with UCS/RS, reveals the proposals for the concept of creating of the UCS/RS into heterogeneous forces group, and reflects the authors' point of view on the creation of the ACS MU with UCS/RS. Practical significance: The concept and idea presented in the paper for the creation of ACS MU with UCS/RS from the inter-service heterogeneous forces group are aimed at the command staff of the Armed Forces and branches of the military, other Federal executive authorities that are participating in the SMO and have UCS/RS in their arsenal, military management bodies, and specialists in the field of forming new forms and methods of conducting combat operations in the air, on land, and at sea.

Key words

military unit; inter-service interaction; unmanned aerial vehicle; unmanned aviation system; robotic complex; unmanned system; crewless system; group of heterogeneous forces; communication system; radio engineering support; troop and weapon control system; automated control system; complex of automation tools; unified information space; information interaction; control cycle.

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Kozlov K. V., Makarenko S. I., Milov V. R., Skripnik I. V. Concept of creating automated control systems for military units of unmanned and robotic systems in a heterogeneous forces group. Systems of Control, Communication and Security, 2026, no. 2, pp. 1-49. DOI: 10.24412/2410-9916-2026-2-001-049 (in Russian).

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