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The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Results and Perspectives
Author(s) -
Krotkov Eric,
Hackett Douglas,
Jackel Larry,
Perschbacher Michael,
Pippine James,
Strauss Jesse,
Pratt Gill,
Orlowski Christopher
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of field robotics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.152
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4967
pISSN - 1556-4959
DOI - 10.1002/rob.21683
Subject(s) - robotics , artificial intelligence , surprise , competition (biology) , rubble , robot , perspective (graphical) , aeronautics , obstacle , stairs , drone , engineering , computer science , situation awareness , simulation , operations research , geography , aerospace engineering , psychology , social psychology , ecology , civil engineering , genetics , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , biology
The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) program conducted a series of prize‐based competition events to develop and demonstrate technology for disaster response. This article provides the official and definitive account of DRC Finals as the culmination of the DRC program. The article details the eight tasks (Drive, Egress, Door, Valve, Wall, Surprise [Plug and Switch], Rubble [Obstacle or Debris], and Stairs) constituting the Challenge, and describes how the competition encouraged supervised autonomous operation by intentionally degrading the communications channel between the remote human operators. The article presents the results of the DRC Finals and places those results in perspective by identifying both strengths and weaknesses of robot performance exhibited at the competition.