Meta‐analysis of Autonomy at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials

The DARPA Robotics Challenge trials offer insights into how the robotics community approaches the design of intelligent systems and the role of supervision and simulation. A survey of the teams suggests that the design process may be hampered by the lack of a recognized canon of intelligent design principles and references and by the underrepresentation of artificial intelligence experts on the teams. The teams generally approached supervision and simulation as a fine-grained execution approval activity rather than as task rehearsal for the entire action sequence.