English village to be invaded in spybot competition英语村被入侵，在Spybot的竞争
By Ceri Perkins | A village in south-west England will shortly be swarming with robots competing to show off their surveillance skills.由ceri帕金斯|一村在西南方的英格兰将在短期内涌入与机器人的竞争，以炫耀他们的监视技能。 The event is the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) answer to the US该活动是英国国防部的（按付款当日价格计算）的答案，美国 DARPA Grand Challenge that set robotic cars DARPA的大挑战，一套机器人车 against one another to encourage advances in autonomous vehicles.对一的另一个进展，以鼓励在自治区的车辆。
The MoD Grand Challenge is instead designed to boost development of teams of small robots able to scout out hidden dangers in hostile urban areas.国防部大的挑战，是不是旨在推动发展的队小机器人能够侦察出的隐患在敌对城市地区。
Over 10 days in August, 11 teams of robots will compete to locate and identify four different threats hidden around a mock East German village used for urban warfare training, at Copehill Down, Wiltshire (see image, top right).超过10天，在8月， 11队的机器人将竞争，以找到并查明四种不同的威胁隐藏靠近模拟东德的村用于城市战训练，在copehill下来，威尔特郡（见形象，右上方） 。
The robots must find snipers, armed vehicles, armed foot soldiers, and improvised explosive devices hidden around the village, and relay a real-time picture of what is happening back to a command post.机器人必须找到狙击手，武装车辆，武装步兵，和简易爆炸装置隐藏村周围，和中继实时时间的图片发生什么事，回到一个指挥所。
Urban hazards市区的危害
The robots will need to negotiate the complexity of an urban environment to find the threats.该机器人将需要谈判的复杂性城市环境找到的威胁。 Hazards include unfamiliar terrain and buildings, trees, near-invisible overhead wires and other urban clutter.危害包括陌生的地形和建筑物，树木，近无形的架空电线和其他城市的杂波。
Teams will earn points based on how many threats they locate in one hour, and how autonomous they are.小组将赚取点的基础上有多少威胁，他们找到在一小时内，以及如何自主他们。 For example, a team will lose points if they use remote control to direct their vehicles at any stage of the trial.例如，一个团队将失分，如果他们使用的遥控器，直接他们的车辆在任何阶段的审判。
The teams that score highest will be rewarded with the potential of a lucrative contract with the MoD, which hopes to see the best ideas rapidly developed to the point they can be deployed by UK forces in places such as Afghanistan and southern Iraq.球队评分最高将奖励与潜在的一个利润丰厚的合同，与按付款当日价格计算，希望看到最好的想法迅速发展到一点，他们可以被派往英国势力在地方，例如阿富汗和伊拉克南部。
“We are in no doubt that this is a difficult challenge,” says Grand Challenge programme leader, Andy Wallace. “我们是在毫无疑问，这是一项困难的挑战，说： ”大挑战计划的领导人，安迪华莱士。
Software control软件控制
Of the 23 initial entries from teams made up of private companies and universities, 11 were selected to take part in the final, with six thought promising enough to receive MoD funding.在23最初的作品，从队成立的私人公司和大学， 11人获选参加在最后，与6大有希望的思想不够收到按付款当日价格计算的资金。
One funded team, the 1资助的工作队， Stellar Consortium恒星财团 , uses two aerial robots and one ground-based one. ，采用了两个空中机器人和一个地面为基础的1 。
A 3m wing-span unmanned air vehicle (UAV) will fly 65 metres above the village and use cameras to gather wide-area surveillance used by software to direct a smaller, 1m UAV flying at 20 metres, and an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), (see image, middle right). 1三米永大跨度无人机（无人机）将飞赴65米以上的村和使用摄影机，以搜集广泛的领域监察所使用的软件直接较小， 1米无人机飞行了20米和1无人地面车辆（ ugv ） ， （见形象，中，右） 。
Those two vehicles use thermal, visual, and radar sensors to make more detailed observations that can be reported back to the base station.那些两车使用的热，视觉，和雷达传感器，作出更详细的观察，可以报回基地台。
“Physically, the vehicles all have to be launched by someone,” explains Julia Richardson, Director of Stellar Research, “but after that, the mission-planning software hosted at the ground station takes full control.” “身体上，车辆都必须有人发起的， ”解释的Julia理查森，主任恒星的研究“ ，但之后，任务规划软件，设在地面站充分控制” 。
Owl swarm猫头鹰群
A team called一组所谓的 Swarm Systems群系统 uses more robots.使用更多的机器人。 “We need to gather as much sensory information as possible,” says team leader Stephen Crampton, “so we’re using eight vehicles. “我们需要多地收集感觉信息，尽可能说： ”队长斯蒂芬crampton ， “因此，我们正在使用的八部车辆。 And we’re going by air because it gives you more viewing angles.”我们正在准备由空气，因为它带给你更多的视角“ 。
Dubbed “Owls”, their battery-powered, Frisbee-sized vehicles weigh under a kilogram and have four small propellers (see image, right).被称为“猫头鹰” ，他们的电池供电，飞盘大小的车辆权衡下公斤，并有4个小型螺旋桨（见形象，右） 。 Able to hover and dart like birds, they are GPS-guided and communicate with one another, and the base station, using Wi-Fi.能悬停和飞镖一样，鸟类，他们是全球定位系统制导和互相沟通，和基地台，利用Wi - Fi 。 Each Owl carries a trio of 5 megapixel cameras.每个猫头鹰进行了三款500万像素相机。
“Without giving too much away, the processing power on board each of these vehicles is pretty impressive,” adds Crampton. “没有给予太多的距离，处理能力在船上的每个这些车辆是相当令人印象深刻，补充说： ” crampton 。 “They could run full-blown Windows Vista.” “他们可以运行，充分吹的Windows Vista ” 。
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A third team,第三队， Silicon Valley硅谷 , has opted to rely less heavily on autonomous vehicles. ，选择了较少依赖大量的自主车辆。 They have used off-the-shelf technology for the hardware as much as possible, and focused more development onto image recognition and analysis software.他们用小康-现成的技术硬件，尽可能多地，并集中更多的发展上的图像识别和分析软件。
“If you can automate that part, then you have a useful tool,” explains team leader, Norman Gregory. “如果你能自动化的一部分，那么你有一个有用的工具， ”解释组长，诺曼格雷戈里。 “What we intend to do is deploy various platforms, depending on what the scenario is.” “我们打算做的是部署各种平台，视乎什么情况是” 。
The team will use a mixture of ground and air-based vehicles, although the team is not yet releasing the exact details.该小组将使用混合了地面和空中为基础的车辆，尽管该小组尚未公布具体细节。 The main ground vehicle is the size of a ride-on lawnmower (see image, bottom right) and can be GPS-guided or remotely directed by a human.主要的地面车辆的大小乘坐-关于割草机（见形象，右下）和全球定位系统可以引导或远程的指示，一个人。
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