SubT Finals Recap and What’s Next
We invite you to hear from the leadership of Team Explorer, the CMU DARPA Subterranean Challenge team, as they discuss the challenges, lessons learned and the future direction these technologies are headed in. Discover opportunities the research has created and how industry can engage.
Over the past three years, some of the world's top universities have entered the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, developing technologies to map, navigate and search underground environments. Team Explorer, led by CMU Robotics Institute faculty members Sebastian Scherer and Matt Travers, as well as Oregon State University’s Geoff Hollinger, gave a solid performance throughout the event, placing fourth in the final leg of the competition. Notably, the team earned the distinction of having the most sectors explored.
The SubT team is happy to answer questions from the audience following the presentation.
November 8, 2021 | 1 - 2 PM EST
Core Technologies 
- Reconfigurable multimodal platforms
- Rapid reconfiguration to assemble heterogeneous agents
- Robust, coordinated and efficient exploration
- Redundancy in algorithms and communication options
- Multimodal sensing and SLAM
- LiDAR, 3D and imaging cameras, dropped ranging-radio anchors
- Semantic mapping
- Detecting 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
Systems Scientist, 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
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
Oregon State University