Tsukuba Challenge
Every year, we participate in the "Tsukuba Challenge" held in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, with a self-propelled outdoor drone developed by the Chief Scientist Office.
What is the
“Tsukuba Challenge”
"Tsukuba Challenge" is a technical challenge held every year since 2007, in which mobile robots autonomously run in urban areas such as the sidewalk in Tsukuba. The purpose is to advance autonomous driving technology in the real environment (real world) that people usually use. It is an event where researchers and the local community cooperate to challenge advanced technologies and conduct open experiments.
For more information, please see the "Tsukuba Challenge” official page.
As a response to last year's retirement cause, which was getting too close to obstacles, we have improved the system to enable reverse movement. This feature allows for stable navigation even in narrow passages or environments with many obstacles.
We successfully completed a 2 km course and achieved Optional Task B: Signal Recognition.