CMU DARPA Subterranean Challenge
SUB-T FALL UPDATE
We invite you to meet members of the award-winning Team Explorer, the CMU DARPA Subterranean Challenge team, and learn more about this groundbreaking competition. Some of the world's top universities have entered the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, developing technologies to map, navigate, and search underground environments.
Led by CMU's Robotics Institute faculty members Sebastian Scherer and Matt Travers, as well as OSU's Geoff Hollinger, Team Explorer has earned first and second place positions in the first two rounds of competition. They look forward to this third and final year of the challenge, with the competition featuring all the subdomains of tunnel systems, urban underground, and cave networks.
Please join us as Sebastian, Matt, and Geoff share the team's journey to this point, introducing several students on the team, and discussing some of the exciting technologies under development.
Thursday, October 29, 2020 | 2:00PM–3:00PM
A recording of this event can be viewed below
Core Technologies 
- Reconfigurable Multi-Modal Platforms
- Rapid reconfiguration to assemble heterogeneous agents
- Robust, Coordinated and Efficient Exploration
- Redundancy in algorithms and communication options
- Multi-Modal Sensing and SLAM
- LiDAR, 3D & imaging cameras, dropped ranging-radio anchors
- Semantic Mapping
- Detect objects of interest
- Robust Communication
- Mesh network, communications planning
Applications
- Rapidly gain situational awareness
- Search and rescue
- Remote scouting
- Forensics/data analysis
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Sub-T Leadership
SEBASTIAN SCHERER
Associate Research Professor, The Robotics Institute
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
MATT TRAVERS
Systems Scientist, The Robotics Institute
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
GEOFF HOLLINGER