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DARPA project strives for off-road unmanned vehicles that react like humans
by Staff Writers
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2020

RACER to focus on new autonomy algorithm technologies

The self-driving car industry has made great autonomy advances, but mostly for well-structured and highly predictable environments. In complex militarily-relevant settings, robotic vehicles have not demonstrated operationally relevant speed and aren't autonomously reliable.

While vehicle platforms that can handle difficult terrain exist, their autonomy algorithms and software often can't process and respond to changing situations well enough to maintain necessary speeds and keep up with soldiers on a mission.

DARPA's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program aims to make sure algorithms aren't the limiting part of the system and that autonomous combat vehicles can meet or exceed soldier driving abilities.

Over a four-year timeline, RACER will develop new algorithm technologies that maximize utilization of the sensor and mechanical limits of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and constantly test these algorithms in the field at DARPA-hosted experiments across the country on a variety of terrain.

DARPA will provide advanced UGV platforms that research teams will use to develop autonomous software capabilities through repeated cycles of simulations and tests on unstructured off-road landscapes.

"In order to achieve RACER goals of increased speed and resilience, we need to embrace learning approaches that automatically tune system parameters in real time," said Stuart Young, program manager leading the RACER project. "Successful software will extract features from sensor data and use that information to make on-the-spot driving decisions."

RACER program goals include not only autonomy algorithms, but also creation of simulation environments that will support rapid advancement of self-driving capabilities for future UGVs.

A forthcoming Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) will include full program details. The BAA will be posted to beta.SAM.gov.


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