Superhuman Unmanned Vehicles: Seeing How Far DARPA's RACER Program Can Go!

DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments, with Resiliency (RACER) program, recently conducted its third experiment, to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles,
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DARPA RACER Experiment 3 B-Roll
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03.22.2023
These test runs, conducted March 12-27, included the first with completely uninhabited RACER Fleet Vehicles (RFVs), with a safety operator overseeing in a supporting chase vehicle. The goal of the RACER program is to demonstrate autonomous movement of combat-scale vehicles in complex, mission-relevant off-road environments that are significantly more unpredictable than on-road conditions.
The multiple courses were in the challenging and unforgiving terrain of the Mojave Desert at the U.S. Army’s National Training Center (NTC) in Ft. Irwin, California. As at the previous events, teams from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated. Additionally, researchers from the Army Research Laboratory demonstrated the flexibility of the performer team’s autonomy software, critical to transitioning RACER capabilities to the services. This completed the project’s first phase.
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