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Army

Advance Notice of Research Areas issued For Robotics Technology Consortium

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

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Last week the Army said it plans to issue a Request for Unfunded Project Proposals to execute a project award supporting ground robotics research areas. Anticipated research areas for project proposals include: Natural Human Robot Interface; 3D Mapping for Off-Road Terrain; Long-Range GPS-Denied Absolute Localization; Autonomous Assisted Mobility; Vegetation Classification for Enhanced Traversability Analysis. This is only for planning purposes, not a Request for Unfunded Project Proposals, and no project award will come from the announcement. The Request for Unfunded…

Congress

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