{"id":192401,"date":"2024-07-06T02:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/racer-speeds-into-a-second-phase-with-robotic-fleet-expansion-and-another-experiment-success"},"modified":"2024-07-06T02:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T07:23:29","slug":"racer-speeds-into-a-second-phase-with-robotic-fleet-expansion-and-another-experiment-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/racer-speeds-into-a-second-phase-with-robotic-fleet-expansion-and-another-experiment-success","title":{"rendered":"RACER Speeds Into a Second Phase With Robotic Fleet Expansion and Another Experiment Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5t3-eXHC5Zs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/robotic-autonomy-in-complex-environments-with-resiliency\">Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER)<\/a> program successfully tested autonomous movement on a new, much larger fleet vehicle \u2013 a significant step in scaling up the adaptability and capability of the underlying RACER algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>The RACER Heavy Platform (RHP) vehicles are 12-ton, 20-foot-long, skid-steer tracked vehicles \u2013 similar in size to forthcoming robotic and optionally manned combat\/fighting vehicles. The RHPs complement the 2-ton, 11-foot-long, Ackermann-steered, wheeled RACER Fleet Vehicles (RFVs) already in use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving two radically different types of vehicles helps us advance towards RACER\u2019s goal of platform agnostic autonomy in complex, mission-relevant off-road environments that are significantly more unpredictable than on-road conditions,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/staff\/dr-stuart-young\">Stuart Young<\/a>, RACER program manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program successfully tested autonomous movement on a new, much larger fleet vehicle \u2013 a significant step in scaling up the adaptability and capability of the underlying RACER algorithms. The RACER Heavy Platform (RHP) vehicles are 12-ton, 20-foot-long, skid-steer tracked vehicles \u2013 similar in size to forthcoming robotic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192401","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}