The autonomous DARPA RACER robotic tank has officially entered the second phase of testing. RACER Heavy Platform (RHP) consists of 12-ton, 20-foot-long, skid-steer tracked vehicles designed to operate in complex, mission-relevant off-road environments that are significantly more unpredictable than on-road conditions.
DARPA’s RHP tanks are based on the Textron M5, which have been developed and used in U.S. Army campaigns, but fitted with autonomy integration hardware stacks and software by Carnegie Robotics. The plan for RACER Phase 2 teams is to continue continue constant development and testing at multiple test sites local to each.
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Our Phase 2 off-road average autonomous speed goals are higher at lower intervention rates, and both RFVs plus now RHPs allow RACER to also show adaptability and resiliency of autonomous software at multiple, platform-agnostic ground robot scales in an array of complex, military-relevant environments. As we also add tactics-based autonomy, we see all of these together as vitally important to Army and Marine needs in robotic vehicle programs of record that are closely tracking RACER, and which represent possible transition opportunities for the program,” said Stuart Young, RACER program manager.
