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DEVCOM ARL FY22 Industry Autonomy Technology
Assessment Final Report on Security and Mobility
Forces that will conduct missions for extended periods in expeditionary situations require technologies
that are mobile, robust, and have sufficient autonomy to increase team effectiveness. The U.S. Army
Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory solicited solutions from industry
that demonstrate autonomous mobility and autonomous security in operationally relevant scenarios.
Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
D
uring July 18-22, 2022, the U.S.
Army Combat Capabilities Development
Command Army Research Laboratory,
three companies, and numerous
attendees from other government organizations
gathered at
the Robotics
Research Collaboration Campus (R2C2)
at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland,
to demonstrate and evaluate
ground robotics technologies with capabilities
for protecting operating areas,
personnel, and infrastructure in numerous
types of environments and situations
during its first ever Industry
Autonomy Technology Assessment
(IATA) event. This event reflects
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory's
commitment to collaborate in robotics
research with academia, industry, and
other government organizations.
The purpose of the IATA is to inform
Army modernization efforts through
innovation, discovery, demonstration,
and experimentation of autonomy
technologies and to accelerate the delivery
of innovative capabilities to the
warfighter. It provides an operationally
relevant environment and problem
set that enables technology developers
to demonstrate new technologies and
apply existing technologies in innovative
ways. It also provides a means for
the government to assess and provide
feedback on performance of technologies
for known gaps and emerging
needs. The primary objective of the
IATA is to identify and assess technologies
that can accelerate solutions relevant
to Army modernization priorities.
The IATA presented an environment to
examine and understand Army challenges
and provide assessment data to
participants on how their technologies
address the challenges.
It was our intention to expose the
technologies from each participating
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An example of the technology evaluated for the security scenario during the technology evaluation.
(Image: Army Research Laboratory)
company to three vignette types, with
multiple run types associated with
each vignette:
* Autonomy for Security: Urbanized
Terrain
* Autonomous Mobility
* Autonomy for Security: Vegetated
Trail Terrain
A total of three companies demonstrated
their ground-based robotic technologiesduring
the event. The companies
who participated in the IATA were
the following:
* Asylon Robotics
* Booz Allen Hamilton
* Ghost Robotics/ARES Security
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Attendees at the event included representatives
from Air Force Research
Laboratory, DEVCOM Armaments Center,
ARL, John Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory, Marine Corps Warfighting
Laboratory, and the Test Resource Management
Center. Support for the planning
and execution of the IATA event
was provided by Energetics Technology
Center, Inc through its Partnership
Intermediary Agreement with ARL.
This report describes the site, vignettes,
and assessment methods and provides
feedback on the performance of the
included technologies. To allow candid
reporting of the performance of the
robotic systems and to preclude attribution
to a specific company's technology,
this report refers to Company A, B,
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