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The United States Army is teaming up with Clemson University to make models for self-driving military vehicles, the Associated press reported Thursday.
The Department of Defense announced an $18 million grant to the university’s International Center for Automotive Research in Greenville, South Carolina, to fund the Virtual Prototyping of Ground Systems Center, the AP reported.
The goal will be to use virtual prototyping to enable military vehicles to drive themselves. The approach has been used by the Department of Defense in other projects, notably the Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter, according to DefenseOne.com.
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U.S. Army, Clemson University partner on autonomous vehicle project
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Bradley Fighting Vehicles modified for autonomous use will be the focus of a project announced by the U.S. Army and Clemson University. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army
Dec. 18 (UPI) The U.S. Army and Clemson University announced a partnership to study conversion of Bradley tanks and armored personnel carriers to autonomous use.
The study for the conversion of existing Army equipment to self-driving vehicles is enabled by an $18 million Defense Department grant in the school s Virtual Prototyping of Ground Systems, and a partnership between the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center and the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research, the South Carolina college announced.
Army partners with Clemson to create autonomous armored vehicle models The Associated Press December 16, 2020 Army Futures Command held demonstrations of technology and equipment on May 16, 2019, at the Texas A&M University System’s RELLIS Campus in Bryan, Texas. (Luke J. Allen/Army) GREENVILLE, S.C. A university in South Carolina is teaming up with the U.S. Army to create models for self-driving military vehicles. The research project at Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research in Greenville will be funded by a $18 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, the university said Tuesday in a news release.
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GREENVILLE â Clemson University announced Tuesday that its automotive engineering department will team up with the U.S. Army to develop models for self-driving armored vehicles.
The U.S. Department of Defense is funding a new $18 million program dubbed The Virtual Prototyping of Ground Systems Center (VIPR-GS), a media release said. Its work will take place at Clemson s International Center for Automotive Research (ICAR) in Greenville.
It is the largest competitive research grant the university has announced so far this year and larger than any single research award in the 2019-2020 school year, according to data presented to Clemson trustees at a Sept. 1 research and economic development meeting.