Autonomous Vehicles Would Learn by Mimicking Human Drivers

A program initiated by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and now also pursued by other agencies called “Learning Applied to Ground Robots” (LAGR), is developing control algorithms that would enable a robotic land vehicle, robotic underwater crawler, or other similar autonomous mobile robot to traverse terrain safely. Among the algorithms needed are navigation algorithms for finding and then following a safe path across terrain from a starting or current position to a destination.