Event Details

After much consideration, it has been decided not to hold a SubT Autonomy Workshop virtually through ICRA. Organizers of the DARPA SubT Challenge are looking into the possibility of holding a separate virtual event in the summer or fall of 2020. To stay updated on the SubT Challenge and SubT autonomy related events, please join the SubT Challenge Community Forum.

Overview

This serves as the informational website for the ICRA 2020 Workshop on Subterranean Autonomy: Recent Advances and Open Challenges being held on Thursday, June 4 2020 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris.
 
Subterranean environments remain, in many ways, a hidden domain in spite of being relevant across a range of industries and applications. Such environments can vary drastically across subdomains such as tunnel systems, urban and municipal underground infrastructure, and natural cave networks. Furthermore, in time-sensitive scenarios, such as in disaster response, first responders are faced with a range of increased technical challenges, including difficult and dynamic terrains, degraded environmental conditions, severe communication constraints, and expansive areas of operation. These environments often pose too great a risk to deploy personnel.
 
Robotics offers a compelling answer to this broad set of challenges, but issues like time-sensitive missions will require systems-level approaches built with teams of cooperating platforms and advancements across a range of technologies, including autonomy, perception, networking, and mobility. This workshop will foster a discussion between the many disciplines required to meaningfully address the difficulties of operation in subterranean environments.

Tentative Schedule

                Defining the Problem 

0830 – 0900        Welcome & Background – Dr. Timothy Chung, DARPA
0900 – 0920        Stakeholder Speaker 1
0920 – 0940        Stakeholder Speaker 2
0940 – 1000        Stakeholder Speaker 3
1000 – 1030        Break & Poster Session / Demos

                             Where are we now?

1030 – 1100        Spotlight Talk – TBD (selected from abstracts)
1100 – 1130        Spotlight Talk – TBD (selected from abstracts)
1130 – 1200        Spotlight Talk – TBD (selected from abstracts)
1200 – 1230        Spotlight Talk – TBD (selected from abstracts)
1230 – 1330        Lunch Break & Poster Session / Demos

                             Where do we go from here?

1330 – 1530        Technology Area Group Discussion Part 1
1530 – 1600        Break & Poster Session / Demos
1600 – 1700        Technology Area Group Discussion Part 2
1700 – 1715        Closing Remarks – Dr. Timothy Chung, DARPA

Call for Participation

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