Mission / Recovery

Equipment Recovery UGV: Robots Recovering Robots

An unmanned mission loop is incomplete if every failed machine requires a person to retrieve it.

Recovery robotics adds the ability to retrieve a damaged or immobilised platform without creating another hazardous human run. It turns separate machines into a more resilient operating and repair loop.

Mission context

The task includes identifying the target, approach, mechanical connection, pulling, route control and safe release. Object mass is only one parameter; resistance, surface, geometry and access also matter.

Engineering approach

HARDY treats recovery as a combination of base platform, winch or other module, standard attachment points and an operator procedure. Interfaces should support repair and repeat testing.

What must be demonstrated

A recovery module must demonstrate the full loaded cycle.

  • connection and release in defined conditions;
  • pulling force, stability and thermal control;
  • return of the object along a defined route without damaging the carrier.

Limits and responsible claims

This public page does not disclose tactics, routes or unit-specific configurations. A towing mass without surface and condition context is not sufficient evidence.

Next step

Provide the mass, geometry and recovery-route conditions.

Discuss a recovery module