2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Results and Perspectives
Autoren: Eric Krotkov, Douglas Hackett, Larry Jackel, Michael Perschbacher, James Pippine, Jesse Strauss, Gill Pratt, Christopher Orlowski
Abstract
The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) program conducted a series of prize-based competition events to develop and demonstrate technology for disaster response. This chapter provides the official and definitive account of DRC Finals as the culmination of the DRC program. The chapter 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 chapter 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.