DARPA’s RACER Autonomy Stack Shows Ground Vehicles Can Navigate Without GPS or Pre-Mapped Routes - Inside GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design

DARPA’s RACER Autonomy Stack Shows Ground Vehicles Can Navigate Without GPS or Pre-Mapped Routes - Inside GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design

After four years of Army and Marine Corps experiments, DARPA says its RACER autonomy stack is ready to move into DoD and commercial use, enabling off-road ground vehicles to operate at speed in complex terrain without GPS or detailed maps. Launched in 2021, Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) was conceived not as a single robotic platform but as an autonomy “stack”—a collection of algorithms, datasets and neural netw…