The '''Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (R-CTA)''' was a research program initiated and sponsored by the [[US Army Research Laboratory]]. The stated purpose of this alliance was to “bring together government, industrial, and academic institutions to address research and development required to enable the deployment of future military unmanned ground vehicle systems ranging in size from man-portables to ground combat vehicles.”<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.arl.army.mil/www/pages/392/RCTA2017-18BPP_013117_R1.1a_signed.pdf|title=ROBOTICS COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE (RCTA): Proposed 2017-18 Biennial Program Plan|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> Collaborative Technology and Research Alliances was a term for partnerships between Army laboratories and centers, private industry and academia for performing research and technology development intended to benefit the US Army. The partnerships were funded by the US Army.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=93|title=Collaborative Alliances {{!}} U.S. Army Research Laboratory|website=www.arl.army.mil|language=en|access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=392|title=Robotics {{!}} U.S. Army Research Laboratory|website=www.arl.army.mil|language=en|access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref>
Collaborative Technology and Research Alliances was a term for partnerships between Army laboratories and centers, private industry and academia for performing research and technology development intended to benefit the US Army. The partnerships were funded by the US Army.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=93|title=Collaborative Alliances {{!}} U.S. Army Research Laboratory|website=www.arl.army.mil|language=en|access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=392|title=Robotics {{!}} U.S. Army Research Laboratory|website=www.arl.army.mil|language=en|access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref>
== History ==
Since approximately 1992, ARLthe Army ResearchLaboratory has formed a number of partnerships that involved the triad of industry, academia and government. One of them was the Robotic Collaborative Technology Alliance which was formed in 2009. The program was completed in 2018, ending with a capstone event at [[Camp Lejeune|Camp Lejeune,]] North Carolina.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?article=3240|title=Army's robotics alliance rallies researchers {{!}} U.S. Army Research Laboratory|website=www.arl.army.mil|language=en|access-date=2018-09-05}}</ref>
== Objectives ==
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== Research thrusts ==
The R-CTA program was organized around several research thrusts, including the followingareas:<ref name=":0" />
* Semantic perception – perception that understands a basic set of object types important to robotics, moving beyond just what is or is not an obstacle.
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== Results ==
Examples of research results developed by the R-CTA program included the following:
* Distributed solutions for efficiently allocating a set of complex tasks to a robot team, by giving individual robots the ability to come up with new ways to perform a task, or by allowing multiple robots to cooperate by sharing the subcomponents of a task, or both.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Complex Task Allocation For Multiple Robots - IEEE Conference Publication|pages=1515–1522|language=en-US|doi=10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570329|chapter=Complex Task Allocation for Multiple Robots|year=2005|last1=Zlot|first1=R.|last2=Stentz|first2=A.|isbn=978-0-7803-8914-4|citeseerx=10.1.1.70.5598}}</ref>
