AASS Seminar - Exploring the Unknown - Team Cerberus at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
09 december 2021 13:00 Zoom
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Alessandro Saffiotti
The research centre AASS arranges a seminar with Marco Tranzatto, ETH Zürich, Robotic Systems Lab.
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Abstract
Autonomous exploration of subterranean environments constitutes a major frontier for robotic systems as underground settings present key challenges that can render robot autonomy hard to achieve. This has motivated the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge, where teams of robots search for objects of interest in various underground environments. The SubT Challenge is an international robotics competition organized and coordinated by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and calls on teams to compete with respect to exploring, mapping and searching large-scale underground environments such as tunnels or mines, urban subterranean infrastructure and cave networks. This talk will focus on Team CERBERUS and its approach in the SubT Challenge. CERBERUS corresponds to a combined system of legged and aerial robots equipped with multi-modal perception capabilities, localization and mapping autonomy, as well as robot-deployable communications that enables resilient navigation, exploration, mapping and object search inside complex, large-scale, sensor-degraded and communications-denied subterranean environments.