SARA

Scalable, Adaptive and Resilient Autonomy


Overview


The Scalable, Adaptive and Resilient Autonomy (SARA) program is an ARL initiative aiming at improving the Army's capabilities in mobility and maneuverability during deployments of autonomous ground vehicles in outdoor unstructured and contested environments.


The UD team, led by Dr. Huang and Dr. Tanner, is one of eight academic and industry program participants who will be helping the Army improve its robotic ground vehicles' capabilities.  The UD team will be focusing primarily on boosting the vehicles' calibration and localization performance, and endowing its navigation software with active sensing behaviors.

Outcomes

Envisioned outcomes will come in the form of ROS code, integrated into the Army's Pheonix Autonomy Stack.

See the clip where a Clearpath Jackal going hiking autonomously (without a map or GPS) in UD's south campus (visit the Movies page for more footage.)



Funding Organization: ARL

Duration: 9 months

Total Budget: $976,409

Participants: UD