EurekAlert September 19, 2019
The United States hosted multiple teams of scientists and engineers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom for the Technical Cooperation Program Contested Urban Environment, or TTCP CUE 2019, strategic challenge last month. Remote Autonomous Systems of the future will need to protect the Soldier and enable them to fight with a technological overmatch. These systems allow the Soldier to have a virtual presence removing them from the harm of an initial contact. Gesture and other modalities of control such as speech and haptics allow these autonomous systems to be controlled in a more intuitive and effective manner, without distracting from the task at hand. The team plans to build upon its collaboration with DST and to continue teaming Soldiers with autonomous mobile platforms...read more.
Equipped with an augmented reality headset, the Soldier sees the robot’s map and navigation plans in real-time as it executes the Soldier’s commands. Credit: US Army Photo by Chris Kaufmann