DARPA Offroad Self Driving Races
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#64WDJ)
DARPA's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program has had several off road races. Experiment 1 took place March-April 2022 on six courses of combat-relevant terrain. The teams did more than 40 autonomous runs of about 2 miles each and reached speeds just under 20 miles per hour. The biggest challenge the teams ...