Meanings
- Any vehicle that can only operate on solid ground.
Although operational environments profoundly differ, both kinds of autonomous vehicles, groundcraft and aircraft, will still rely on conceptually the same sorts of sensors — cameras, radar and lidar — to perceive surroundings in real time.
2020 January 1, Adam Hadhazy, “Achieving autonomy”, in Aerospace America, archived from the original on 22 Apr 20252 more examples
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, was the Grand Marshal of the 1994 summer Talladega 500. Aldrin added a personal touch in commanding the drivers to start their engines, stating, “Gentlemen, energize your groundcraft.”
2020 June 20, “Astronaut Doug Hurley to give Monday’s Talladega command from space”, in NASCAR.com, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2020For example, autonomous aircraft, spacecraft (e.g., Mourtzis et al. 2022), groundcraft or seacraft training involves ground and flight/sea crews, operators for metal additive manufacturing (e.g., Pusateri et al. 2022) on for operations continuity service level contracts (SLAs).
2023, Janne Heilala, Ebo Kwegyir-Afful, Jussi Kantola, “Training and Competency Development on Virtual Safety Training”, in Human Factors in Virtual Environments and Game Design, volume 96, →DOI, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2024, page 138
Origin
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groundcraft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/groundcraft
“groundcraft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/groundcraft. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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