#439753 DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams
This is it! This week, we're at the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge Finals in Louisville KY, where more than two dozen Systems Track and Virtual Track teams will compete for millions of dollars in prize money and being able to say "we won a DARPA challenge," which is of course priceless. We've been following SubT for years, from Tunnel Circuit to Urban Circuit to Cave (non-) Circuit. For a recent recap, have a look at this post-cave pre-final article that includes an interview with SubT Program Manager Tim Chung, but if you don't have time for that, the TLDR is that this week we're looking at both a Virtual Track as well as a Systems Track with physical robots on a real course. The Systems Track teams spent Monday checking in at the Louisville Mega Cavern competition site, and we asked each team to tell us about how they've been preparing, what they think will be most challenging, and what makes them unique. Team CERBERUS
CERBERUSCountry USA, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Norway Members
University of Nevada, Reno Robots TBA Follow Team Q&A: Team Lead Kostas Alexis How have you been preparing for the SubT Final? First of all this year's preparation was strongly influenced by Covid-19 as our team spans multiple countries, namely the US, Switzerland, Norway, and the UK. Despite the challenges, we leveled up both our weekly shake-out events and ran a 2-month team-wide integration and testing activity in Switzerland during July and August with multiple tests in diverse underground settings including multiple mines. Note that we bring a brand new set of 4 ANYmal C robots and a new generation of collision-tolerant flying robots so during this period we further built new hardware. What do you think the biggest challenge of the SubT Final will be? We are excited to see how the combination of vastly large spaces available in Mega Caverns can be combined with very narrow cross-sections as DARPA promises and vertical structures. We think that terrain with steep slopes and other obstacles, complex 3D geometries, as well as the dynamic obstacles will be the core challenges. What is one way in which your team is unique, and why will that be an advantage during the competition? Our team coined early on the idea of legged and flying robot combination. We have remained focused on this core vision of ours and also bring fully own-developed hardware for both legged and flying systems. This is both our advantage and – in a way – our limitation as we spend a lot of time in its development. We are fully excited about the potential we see developing and we are optimistic that this will be demonstrated in the Final Event! Team Coordinated Robotics
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