(DARPA)
The organizers of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge hosted the final round and announced the winners.
The real competition took place in a cave and artificial underground structures and the victorious team was CERBERUS, using a four-legged robot.
The virtual competition declared winner the Dynamo team, choosing a quadrocopter.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) directly develops and promotes the development of new technologies that can potentially be used for military purposes.
The management is known, among other things, for its technology competitions, the most successful of which was the Urban Challenge, in which developers created unmanned vehicles.
This competition gave a huge boost to the industry, and many of its participants then founded the companies and projects that are leading in this field today: Waymo, Zoox, Nuro and others.
The goal of the Subterranean Challenge was to develop robots and all sorts of systems for autonomous navigation and creating maps of underground spaces, as well as searching for objects in them.
The competition was divided into two main categories: real and virtual (it was possible to participate in both at once). First, there were three separate stages.
On the first, the robots and drones of the teams moved and performed tasks in the mine tunnel.
At the second stage, the competition took place in urban underground facilities.
And the third was supposed to take place in a cave, but it was held only virtually because of the pandemic.
Finally, the teams had to demonstrate their developments in three of these environments at once.
Teams were judged by how many objects they found and how quickly they did it. Among the objects were a lost person, a backpack, a gas source and others.
The winner in the main category was CERBERUS, which included engineers from the USA, Switzerland, Great Britain and Norway.
Initially, the team planned to use a combination of a four-legged robot and a drone, but in the end they settled on the four-legged ANYmal robot. The robot found 23 of 40 objects.
The CSIRO Data61 team also found 23 objects, but spent more time on it, so they took second place. They used a bundle of a tracked robot and a quadcopter located on it.
As a result, CERBERUS received two million dollars, CSIRO Data61 received one million, and MARBLE, which took the third place with 18 objects found, won 500 thousand dollars.
In the virtual competition, the Spanish team Dynamo won, using a quadcopter with a lidar. They got 223 points and won 750 thousand dollars.
The second and third were CTU-CRAS-NORLAB and Coordinated Robotics, which received 500 thousand and 250 thousand, respectively.
It is noteworthy that the teams could participate in virtual and real competitions, and four teams did so, but none of them was able to take a prize in both categories.
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