Autonomous Ground Vehicle Reference Architecture (AGVRA) Task Request

This project seeks to develop AGVRA, a virtual model prototype for reference architectures. The overarching goal of AGVRA is to establish a set of guidelines to enable the Army robotics community to fulfill the Army’s RAS commonality objectives by establishing an affordable means to deliver advanced capability to the Warfighter, by utilizing architectural best practices and standards. The development of AGVRA will enhance mission effectiveness through the evaluation of Ground Vehicle Robotics architectures and architectural design techniques. Evaluation and improvement of these architectures and architectural design techniques will improve interoperability between robotic platforms, increase reliability and maintainability due to a wider base of common components, reduce program cost and schedules through having a common architecture, and increase program flexibility via easier integration of Government owned, proprietary, open source and licensed solutions.