Tim Chung: DARPA Subterranean Challenge | Sense Think Act Podcast #14

by Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast

24 February 2022

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In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Tim Chung, Program Manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), on the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge. The SubT Challenge is a robotics challenge that aims to develop innovative technologies that would augment operations underground. In this conversation, they talk about the motivation of the SubT Challenge, its systems (hardware) and virtual (simulation) challenges, how the resulting technology has been shared with the world, on benchmarking the robotics behaviors in simulation, on the challenge of scoping the SubT Challenge, and on building the final environment for the systems challenge.

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tags: Actuation, Algorithm Controls, c-Research-Innovation, Research, Robotics technology, Sensing, software

Audrow Nash is a Software Engineer at Open Robotics and the host of the Sense Think Act Podcast

Sense Think Act Podcast is a long-form, technical podcast about all areas of robotics that is hosted by Audrow Nash and sponsored by Open Robotics

Tim Chung: DARPA Subterranean Challenge | Sense Think Act Podcast #14

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