• CERBERUS in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge 

      Tranzatto, Marco; Miki, Takahiro; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Bernreiter, Lukas; Kulkarni, Mihir; Mascarich, Frank; Andersson, Olov; Khattak, Shehryar; Hutter, Marco; Siegwart, Roland; Alexis, Konstantinos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This article presents the core technologies and deployment strategies of Team CERBERUS that enabled our winning run in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge finals. CERBERUS is a robotic system-of-systems involving walking and ...
    • CERBERUS: Autonomous Legged and Aerial Robotic Exploration in the Tunnel and Urban Circuits of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge 

      Tranzatto, Marco; Mascarich, Frank; Bernreiter, Lukas; Godinho, Carolina; Camurri, Marco; Khattak, Shehryar; Dang, Tung; Reijgwart, Victor; Loeje, Johannes; Wisth, David; Zimmermann, Samuel; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Fehr, Marius; Solanka, Lukas; Buchanan, Russell; Bjelonic, Marko; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Valceschini, Mathieu; Jenelten, Fabian; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Homberger, Timon; De Petris, Paolo; Wellhausen, Lorenz; Kulkarni, Mihir; Miki, Takahiro; Hirsch, Satchel; Montenegro, Markus; Papachristos, Christos; Tresoldi, Fabian; Carius, Jan; Valsecchi, Giorgio; Lee, Joonho; Meyer, Konrad; Wu, Xiangyu; Nieto, Juan; Smith, Andy; Hutter, Marco; Siegwart, Roland; Mueller, Mark; Fallon, Maurice; Alexis, Konstantinos (Journal article, 2021)
      Autonomous exploration of subterranean environments constitutes a major frontier for robotic systems as underground settings present key challenges that can render robot autonomy hard to achieve. This has motivated the ...
    • Present and Future of SLAM in Extreme Environments: The DARPA SubT Challenge 

      Ebadi, Kamak; Bernreiter, Lukas; Biggie, Harel; Catt, Gavin; Chang, Yun; Chatterjee, Arghya; Denniston, Christopher; Deschênes, Simon-Pierre; Harlow, Kyle; Khattak, Shehryar; Nogueira, Lucas; Palieri, Matteo; Petráček, Pavel; Petrlík, Matěj; Reinke, Andrzej; Krátký, Vít; Zhao, Shibo; Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar; Alexis, Konstantinos; Heckman, Christoffer; Khosoussi, Kasra; Kottege, Navinda; Morrell, Benjamin; Hutter, Marco; Pauling, Fred; Pomerleau, François; Saska, Martin; Scherer, Sebastian; Siegwart, Roland; Williams, Jason; Carlone, Luca (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This paper surveys recent progress and discusses future opportunities for Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) in extreme underground environments. SLAM in subterranean environments, from tunnels, caves, and man-made ...