Researchers take a new more efficient approach to designing machine autonomy for unmanned combat vehicles
ADELPHI, Md. – The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, Md., has begun using its own new autonomy stack to speed development of its unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) program during a one-year sprint. FedScoop reports. Continue reading original article
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4 Aug. 2021 -- By owning its autonomy tech stack — all the layers of technology that support applications and development — rather than depending on a contractor for it, ARL has more control over its Scalable, Adaptive and Resilient Autonomy (SARA) program to improve how autonomous combat vehicles drive themselves.
Namely, it gave the lab more flexibility to assign research roles to partners to be more deliberate about what groups do and how they use the tech stack to fuse their efforts.
The SARA program kicked off its one-year sprint last year, working with eight collaborators from across the country that each was given a specific part of the complex world of machine autonomy to engineer new solutions to, instead of putting out broad requests for proposals.
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