防务公司Forterra和Hypercraft合作研发了一款能够在争夺环境中作战的自动驾驶车辆，并在华盛顿特区的美国陆军协会年会暨展览会上首次亮相。
Defense companies Forterra and Hypercraft have collaborated to produce a contested-environment-ready autonomous vehicle, which they showed off for the first time at the Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C.
Forterra将其AutoDrive自动驾驶软件平台安装在Hypercraft的Razorback地面车辆上，该平台为无人机动性提供动力，从而生产出一款能够承受战斗后勤考验且不使士兵面临风险的产品。
Forterra installed its AutoDrive autonomy software platform that powers unmanned maneuverability onto Hypercraft’s Razorback ground vehicle, yielding a product that can withstand the punishing logistics of combat without putting soldiers at risk.
“自动驾驶军用车辆的目的在于将有效载荷送达摩擦点，”Forterra首席增长官Scott Sanders表示。“Razorback具备动力、发电能力和载荷容量，能够在无需改装的情况下搭载多种武器系统。”Forterra的AutoDrive自动驾驶系统已成为行业标准，已集成于现役服役的200多辆车辆。
“The point of an autonomous military vehicle is to deliver payloads to the point of friction,” Forterra Chief Growth Officer Scott Sanders said. “Razorback has the power, power generation and capacity to carry a wide variety of weapons systems without modification.”Forterra’s AutoDrive autonomous driving system has become an industry standard, integrated on more than 200 vehicles in active service.
与此同时，Razorback具备300马力、40000单位的有效载荷范围、500英里续航里程以及最高可达38千瓦的可分配功率。
Meanwhile, the Razorback weaponizes 300 horsepower, 4,0000 volumes of payload range, a 500-mile range and up to 38 kilowatts of distributable power.
根据Forterra发言人Kelsey Szablowski的说法，Forterra是首家在乌克兰实际部署的美国地面自动驾驶公司，已完成88次伤员疏散任务，以营救前线的乌克兰士兵。
Forterra was the first U.S. ground autonomy company to be actively deployed in Ukraine and has completed 88 casualty evacuation missions to rescue Ukrainian soldiers from the front lines, according to Forterra spokesperson Kelsey Szablowski.
不让军方人员处于危险之中的这一任务是Forterra理念的一部分。“机器人不会流血，”Szablowski说。陆军已经注意到该公司的做法。
That mission to not put military personnel in harm’s way is part of Forterra’s mantra. “Robots don’t bleed,” Szablowski said. The Army has taken notice of the company’s approach.
八月份，陆军将Forterra选为其工程师自动驾驶突击能力计划的主要承包商，该计划是一项更大规模的工作，旨在在地雷清除任务中部署自动驾驶车辆。
In August, the service selected Forterra as a prime contractor for its Engineer Autonomous Breaching Capability program, a larger effort to field autonomous vehicles during mine-clearing missions.
该公司在一辆福特F-250皮卡上安装了其AutoDrive技术，并将其命名为Mobile Autonomous Uncrewed Lanemaker（MAUL）。
The company outfitted a Ford F-250 with its AutoDrive technology and named it the Mobile Autonomous Uncrewed Lanemaker, or MAUL.
MAUL没有人坐在驾驶座上，可以自主行驶或由操作员控制，专为在雷区争夺环境中的侦察、规划和清雷而设计。
The MAUL, which hosts no human in the driver’s seat and can drive autonomously or be controlled by an operator, is made for reconnaissance, planning and clearing in mine-contested environments.
自动驾驶车辆部署火箭推进的地雷清除线装药（MICLIC），在驶入前对某一区域的爆炸物进行引爆。
The autonomous vehicle deploys a rocket-propelled mine-clearing line charge, or MICLIC, to detonate explosives in an area before driving through.
8月中旬，福塔拉公司在北卡罗来纳州布拉格堡的“沙丘项目”中演示了MAUL的能力，当时无人机在车辆尝试进行地雷探测和清除时对其发动了攻击。
In mid-August, Forterra demonstrated the MAUL’s capabilities during Project Sandhills at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in which drones attacked the vehicle as it attempted to mine-detect and clear.
MAUL通过车载自动炮塔击退并摧毁了无人机，同时自主在地内导航。
The MAUL fought off and destroyed the drones with an onboard automated turret, while it navigated through the area autonomously.
此次演习于8月17日至8月28日进行，展示了陆军利用可归因的自主系统应对多种任务集的能力，这些系统能够降低士兵的风险。
The exercise took place from Aug. 17 to Aug. 28 and demonstrated the Army’s ability to tackle a myriad of mission sets using attributable autonomous systems that reduce risks to soldiers.
“与其仅依赖高价值有人值守的资产，我们可以部署半自动的F-250皮卡、sUAS群以及可适应、可扩展且具韧性的自主c-UAS系统，”沙丘项目行动官丹尼·德拉米上尉在演习期间说道。
“Instead of relying solely on high-value, crewed assets, we can field semi-autonomous F-250s, sUAS swarms and autonomous c-UAS systems that are adaptable, scalable and resilient,” said Capt. Denny Drummey, Sandhills Project operations officer, during the exercise.