DARPA held a competition of humanoid robots in virtual reality
On Thursday, June 27, DARPA announced the results of the first stage of the DARPA robotics challenge contest. The goal of the project is to create a robot that can use equipment, tools, premises and vehicles designed for humans, while being fairly simple to manage. Such a robot will be able to replace people in a dangerous environment - when extinguishing fires, accidents and natural disasters. The first stage of the competition was held in virtual reality - inside the Gazebo simulator created by the Open Source Robotics Foundation ( OSRF ). At the second stage, which will be held in December of this year, the participants will have to manage the real ATLAS robots manufactured by Boston Dynamics.
During the competition, virtual robots had to perform three types of tasks: get into the car and drive through the obstacle track, go over rough terrain, attach a fire hose to a crane in the wall and open the valve. For each task, five attempts were made with different limitations in time and quality of communication with the virtual robot - to make conditions closer to the combat, the bandwidth for communication with the robot ranged from 900 to 60 megabits, and the ping was increased to 500 milliseconds.
An example of successful completion of one of the tasks.
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The virtual competition was attended by 26 teams from eight countries of the world. Initially, it was planned that 6 teams would pass to the next stage, but due to the fact that the NASA Jet Propulsion Team decided to focus on improving the hardware of their robot at the next stage, their ATLAS copy went to the Lockheed Martin team, and another team would receive the ATLAS robot as a gift from the University of Hong Kong. Thus, 8 teams will participate in the December stage.
Since there were no requirements for the gait and posture of the robots - if only they could cope with the task in time - some teams used rather original ways of movement. So, some robots preferred to walk on all fours so as not to fall or, instead of getting into the car, like a man, approached it from the passenger and just fell backwards on the seat so that you could be pulled up and sit in the normal position :
The final stage of the competition will be held in December 2014. On it, the participating robots will have to go through full-scale "exercises" to eliminate the consequences of the disaster. The winner will receive two million dollars.
During the competition, virtual robots had to perform three types of tasks: get into the car and drive through the obstacle track, go over rough terrain, attach a fire hose to a crane in the wall and open the valve. For each task, five attempts were made with different limitations in time and quality of communication with the virtual robot - to make conditions closer to the combat, the bandwidth for communication with the robot ranged from 900 to 60 megabits, and the ping was increased to 500 milliseconds.
An example of successful completion of one of the tasks.
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The virtual competition was attended by 26 teams from eight countries of the world. Initially, it was planned that 6 teams would pass to the next stage, but due to the fact that the NASA Jet Propulsion Team decided to focus on improving the hardware of their robot at the next stage, their ATLAS copy went to the Lockheed Martin team, and another team would receive the ATLAS robot as a gift from the University of Hong Kong. Thus, 8 teams will participate in the December stage.
Since there were no requirements for the gait and posture of the robots - if only they could cope with the task in time - some teams used rather original ways of movement. So, some robots preferred to walk on all fours so as not to fall or, instead of getting into the car, like a man, approached it from the passenger and just fell backwards on the seat so that you could be pulled up and sit in the normal position :
The final stage of the competition will be held in December 2014. On it, the participating robots will have to go through full-scale "exercises" to eliminate the consequences of the disaster. The winner will receive two million dollars.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/185000/
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