DARPA Perceptually Enabled Task Guidance (PTG)
HR001121S0015
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Highly Encouraged Abstract due March 31, 2021, 12:00 noon (ET)
Proposal due  May 14, 2021, 12:00 noon (ET)

DARPA is soliciting innovative fundamental research proposals in the area of perceptually enabled task guidance. The goal is to enable mechanics, medics, and other specialists to perform tasks within and beyond their skillsets by providing just-in-time feedback and instructions for physical tasks. DARPA envisions artificial intelligence (AI) technology that perceives the environment, reasons about physical tasks, and models the user, all in real-time. The AI will leverage commercially-available sensor technologies to see what the user sees and hear what the user hears, and will provide contextually relevant information and instruction to the user using augmented reality (AR).

The goal of PTG is to develop software-based AI technology for perceptually-enabled task guidance. Development of sensors, computing hardware, and augmented reality headsets is outside the scope of PTG. PTG is not interested in supporting the development of new sensors. Small and potentially wearable cameras and microphones are already available in the commercial market. Performers may exploit additional sensors, e.g., inertial sensors, as long as they are small (wearable), inexpensive, and widely available. Similarly, PTG will not support the development of computing hardware, which is already getting cheaper, smaller, and faster. Proposers may use whatever commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware they need (e.g., Central Processing Units, Graphics Processing Units, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, etc.), but the development of new hardware is outside the scope of the program. Finally, PTG is not interested in the development of AR headsets. AR headsets are already commercially available, with new and better headsets in development.