DVIDS - News - Annually released, government-owned autonomous software plays key role in student competition dvidshub.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dvidshub.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
US Army prepping robotic combat vehicles for big test with soldiers in 2022 4 days ago
A Textron, Howe & Howe and FLIR Systems team unveiled its Ripsaw M5 robotic combat vehicle at the Association of the U.S. Army s annual show in 2019. The team was selected to build RCV-Light prototypes to help the Army build requirements for a future program of record. (Photo courtesy of Textron) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army has taken receipt of its light and medium Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes from industry teams and is putting them through the paces this year ahead of a major company-level soldier assessment in 2022.
The decision to assimilate AM3P into RTK and thereby make it available to the entire ROS-M defense robotics community represents a significant initial milestone towards the Army s goal of integrating third-party developed software offering enhanced and extended functionality into RTK, said Jon St. John, Sr. Programs Director for the National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC).
The successful maturation and testing of AM3P, performed under the Combat Vehicle Robotics (CoVeR) program, led to the decision to begin the RTK integration process. This will ultimately enable new autonomy capabilities in all RTK-equipped vehicles such as the upcoming Robotics Combat Vehicle (RCV) family of systems.