Team White Cougar, Inc. is pleased to announce its formation for the purpose of entering and hopefully winning the DARPA Grand Challenge.

Team White Cougar is led by Ron Fink, a computer development engineer, who has created a reputation as a maverick through his development of exceedingly complex applications.  The all-volunteer team consists of 23 creative and talented people, which is planned to almost double by project completion. Several members of the team are veteran participants from other teams in last year’s Grand Challenge.

White Cougar’s “robot” is built on an ultra-advanced vision and reasoning system that features a disruptive technology that will bring safe and truly interactive autonomous robots to reality.  The system creates true artificial intelligence modules within a unitized framework.  Key individual modules are: vision, perception, object identification, predictive behavior, non-sentient awareness (NSA), interactive, strategic/tactical decisions, and purpose.

The vision component of the system creates and continually augments a world-model in its “brain”.  The object component of the system correctly identifies the individual objects within the model and interprets their potential behaviors.  The “NSA” portion of the system understands the properties, capabilities, and constraints of “self”; and also is “aware” of its present location, orientation, rotation, and vector in all three dimensions with the addition of time.

The strategic and tactical decision component combines interactive purpose with object future predictive abilities from current external stimuli to successfully anticipate, decide, and then execute the best possible course of action.

Team White Cougar is seeking sponsors, and also seeking mutually beneficial strategic partnerships in which to apply this disruptive technology.