{"id":104935,"date":"2020-04-07T15:48:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/darpa-seeks-enhanced-low-light-navigation-performance-for-unmanned-systems"},"modified":"2020-04-07T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:48:52","slug":"darpa-seeks-enhanced-low-light-navigation-performance-for-unmanned-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/darpa-seeks-enhanced-low-light-navigation-performance-for-unmanned-systems","title":{"rendered":"DARPA seeks enhanced low-light navigation performance for unmanned systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-seeks-enhanced-low-light-navigation-performance-for-unmanned-systems.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new programme from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to address a key weakness of autonomous and semi-autonomous land systems: the need for active illumination to navigate in low-light conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Unmanned systems rely on active illumination \u2014 anything that emits light or electromagnetic radiation, such as light detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems \u2014 to navigate at night or underground.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Joe Altepeter, programme manager in DARPA\u2019s Defense Sciences Office, this approach creates significant security concerns, as such emissions could be detected by potential adversaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new programme from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to address a key weakness of autonomous and semi-autonomous land systems: the need for active illumination to navigate in low-light conditions. Unmanned systems rely on active illumination \u2014 anything that emits light or electromagnetic radiation, such as light detection and ranging (LIDAR) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}