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Kostas ALEXIS – leader of the team CERBERUS who won the 2021 DARPA Subterranean Challenge – is a graduate of the University of Patras holding diploma (2007) and a PhD (2011) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Before joining NTNU, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno. Prior to that he was a Senior Researcher at the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL), ETH Zurich.
The goal of the DARPA’s three-year long Subterranean Challenge/Competition was to “develop innovative technologies that would augment operations underground”—or, as IEEE Spectrum put it, “to get teams of robots doing useful stuff in challenging underground environments.”
The final competition of the challenge took place in Louisville, KY in September 2021. Finalists in the competition had to navigate environments that incorporated elements from all three previous events, including confined spaces built to simulate underground mines, metropolitan infrastructure, and cave systems. During operations, smoke was used to reduce visibility. To win, robots from each team had to explore these environments and find objects of interest (artifacts) that had been placed there by DARPA SubT Challenge organizers. Once found, the robots had to report the accurate location of the artifact. Each artifact was worth one point.
Team CERBERUS won by accurately finding and locating 23 artifacts out of the 40 total present. Second place winner Team CSIRO Data61 also scored 23 points but it reported the final artifact more slowly, giving the win to Team CERBERUS. Third place winner was Team MARBLE, with a score of 18.
More:
https://www.flyability.com/news/darpa-subt-challenge
https://ethz.academia.edu/KostasAlexis/CurriculumVitae
Kostas ALEXIS – leader of the team CERBERUS who won the 2021 DARPA Subterranean Challenge – is a graduate of the University of Patras holding diploma (2007) and a PhD (2011) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Before joining NTNU, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno. Prior to that he was a Senior Researcher at the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL), ETH Zurich.
The goal of the DARPA’s three-year long Subterranean Challenge/Competition was to “develop innovative technologies that would augment operations underground”—or, as IEEE Spectrum put it, “to get teams of robots doing useful stuff in challenging underground environments.”
The final competition of the challenge took place in Louisville, KY in September 2021. Finalists in the competition had to navigate environments that incorporated elements from all three previous events, including confined spaces built to simulate underground mines, metropolitan infrastructure, and cave systems. During operations, smoke was used to reduce visibility. To win, robots from each team had to explore these environments and find objects of interest (artifacts) that had been placed there by DARPA SubT Challenge organizers. Once found, the robots had to report the accurate location of the artifact. Each artifact was worth one point.
Team CERBERUS won by accurately finding and locating 23 artifacts out of the 40 total present. Second place winner Team CSIRO Data61 also scored 23 points but it reported the final artifact more slowly, giving the win to Team CERBERUS. Third place winner was Team MARBLE, with a score of 18.
More:
https://www.flyability.com/news/darpa-subt-challenge
https://ethz.academia.edu/KostasAlexis/CurriculumVitae