CERBERUS队在DARPA地下挑战中获得第2轮

Source: Team Cerberus

RENO, Nev. – Team Cerberus, an international collaboration based in the University of Nevada, Reno College of Engineering, has been selected to move on to the second round of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Subterranean Challenge.

CED CERBERUS是来自世界各地的11个机器人团队之一在第一轮of DARPA’s latest robotics challenge last month. Each team brought novel approaches to rapidly map, explore, and search underground environments in time-sensitive operations critical for the civilian and military domains alike.

“We are even more excited for the future steps of theDARPA Subterranean Challenge，我们期待2020年的城市和洞穴电路，“内华达大学副教授Kostas Alexis说Computer Science and Engineering Department. “With the lessons learned from the Tunnel Circuit, we aim to revolutionize how walking and flying robots can work collaboratively in a manner that provides a unified solution to the multiple challenges of subterranean robotic entry and exploration.”

Led by Alexis, Team Cerberus rolled out technologies aimed at revolutionizing how robotic systems navigate and operate in the underground domain – human-made tunnel systems, urban underground settings, and natural cave networks that are too dangerous, dark, deep, and unknown to risk human lives.

“我们的团队得到了11名优秀团队的第六位，”Alexis关于第一次挑战。“我们从一开始就知道，我们的腿运动和飞行机器人的方法不会在最大到期 - 与例如轮式平台相比。然而，我们充满信心，我们的方法是为所有环境提供统一解决方案的最佳方式，即DARPA地下挑战的所有环境;如隧道，洞穴和大都市地下基础设施。“

Gaining experience

Team Cerberus is named for the multi-headed canine guardian of the underworld in Greek mythology and stands for “CollaborativE walking and flying RoBots for autonomous ExploRation in Underground Settings.” It is based on the collaboration among experts who have been at the forefront of research into walking and flying robots for the past few years.

In addition to Alexis, director of the自治机器人实验室at the University of Nevada, Reno, the team includes Prof. Marco Hutter of the机器人系统实验室at ETH (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich, Prof. Roland Siegwart of the自治系统实验室at ETH Zurich, Prof. Mark Mueller of theHiper Lab.加州大学伯克利分校;和猫rice Fallon of the Oxford Robotics Institute,塞拉涅瓦达公司在火花，内华。，和Flyabilityin Switzerland.

该团队的自治机器人配备了多模态感知系统，导航和映射自主权和自组织网络通信。这些功能可实现鲁棒且可靠的导航，探索和映射和对象搜索。

“DARPA地下挑战隧道电路的经验是整个团队的独特而极为奖励，”Alexis说。“这是极端挑战和动机的结合，结合使用良好的同事并了解更多。我们很荣幸我们有机会在那里。“

2020年CERBERUS挑战

城市巡回赛的第二次挑战将于2020年2月。它将探索地下大都市基础设施，例如可以具有多个故事的复杂布局的地铁或下水道，并跨越几个城市块。这些区域对于搜索和救援，安全性和其他应用领域至关重要。

In August 2020, the Cave Circuit will be the third challenge. It refers to the exploration of natural cave networks — environments that are also crucial for a variety of search and rescue applications. Natural cave networks often have irregular geological structures, with both constrained passages and large caverns.

The final event, planned for 2021, will feature a course that incorporates challenges from all three underground environments.

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