DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-subterranean-challenge-2657170650

by abhiminator • 4 years ago

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Very impressive.

theossuary• 4 years ago

They talk a lot about the mapping system they have developed in the interview, I wonder if there's any more information about it available? I can only imagine what'll be possible when technology like that is availabile more freely

jdp123• 4 years ago

You can find it at:

https://data61.csiro.au/en/Our-Research/Our-Work/Monitoring-...

tastyfreeze• 4 years ago

First responders or... hunter killers.

Seriously though, impressive display by the teams. Someday in the future I will be able to sit outside an abandoned mine drinking coffee while the robots map it all out in 3d.

dmead• 4 years ago

kinda like the floating orb robots from prometheus.

farseer• 4 years ago

Wouldn't a miniature drone swarm be more accessible and quicker I wonder? Battery time would be an issue I understand but the mapping would also be quicker, in less than 30 minutes perhaps.

hugh-avherald• 4 years ago

Risk of colliding with stalactites was the problem, as well colliding and communicating with each other. Don't think the tech is there currently.

nomilk• 4 years ago

This point cloud assembled by Team CSIRO Data61 shows a robotic view of nearly the entire SubT course, with each dot in the cloud representing a point in 3D space measured by a sensor on a robot. Team CSIRO’s point cloud differed from DARPA’s official map by less than 1 percent

https://i.imgur.com/1Mi9YwA.png

DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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