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The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue

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Editors:
  1. Matthew Spenko

    1. The Robotics Lab, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, USA

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  2. Stephen Buerger

    1. High Consequence Automation and Robotics, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

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  3. Karl Iagnemma

    1. Robotic Mobility Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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  • Includes technical papers describing the competitors in the recent DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC)which attracted worldwide press attention and was a landmark event in the robotics community
  • Well edited technical summary and review of the results of the DRC humanoid robotics competition
  • Showcases the very latest technology for robotic perception, manipulation, and locomotion

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 121)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Results and Perspectives

    • Eric Krotkov, Douglas Hackett, Larry Jackel, Michael Perschbacher, James Pippine, Jesse Strauss et al.
    Pages 1-26

  3. Robot System of DRC-HUBO+ and Control Strategy of Team KAIST in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

    • Jeongsoo Lim, Hyoin Bae, Jaesung Oh, Inho Lee, Inwook Shim, Hyobin Jung et al.
    Pages 27-69

  4. Team IHMC’s Lessons Learned from the DARPA Robotics Challenge: Finding Data in the Rubble

    • Matthew Johnson, Brandon Shrewsbury, Sylvain Bertrand, Duncan Calvert, Tingfan Wu, Daniel Duran et al.
    Pages 71-102

  5. Developing a Robust Disaster Response Robot: CHIMP and the Robotics Challenge

    • G. Clark Haynes, David Stager, Anthony Stentz, J Michael Vande Weghe, Brian Zajac, Herman Herman et al.
    Pages 103-144

  6. DRC Team NimbRo Rescue: Perception and Control for Centaur-Like Mobile Manipulation Robot Momaro

    • Max Schwarz, Marius Beul, David Droeschel, Tobias Klamt, Christian Lenz, Dmytro Pavlichenko et al.
    Pages 145-190

  7. Team RoboSimian: Semi-autonomous Mobile Manipulation at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

    • Sisir Karumanchi, Kyle Edelberg, Ian Baldwin, Jeremy Nash, Brian Satzinger, Jason Reid et al.
    Pages 191-235

  8. Director: A User Interface Designed for Robot Operation with Shared Autonomy

    • Pat Marion, Maurice Fallon, Robin Deits, Andrés Valenzuela, Claudia Pérez D’Arpino, Greg Izatt et al.
    Pages 237-270

  9. Achieving Reliable Humanoid Robot Operations in the DARPA Robotics Challenge: Team WPI-CMU’s Approach

    • Christopher G. Atkeson, P. W. Babu Benzun, Nandan Banerjee, Dmitry Berenson, Christoper P. Bove, Xiongyi Cui et al.
    Pages 271-307

  10. Team DRC-Hubo@UNLV in 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

    • Paul Oh, Kiwon Sohn, Giho Jang, Youngbum Jun, Donghyun Ahn, Juseong Shin et al.
    Pages 309-346

  11. Team SNU’s Control Strategies to Enhancing Robot’s Capability: Lessons from the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015

    • Sanghyun Kim, Mingon Kim, Jimin Lee, Soonwook Hwang, Joonbo Chae, Beomyeong Park et al.
    Pages 347-379

  12. Team THOR’s Entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015

    • Stephen G. McGill, Seung-Joon Yi, Hak Yi, Min Sung Ahn, Sanghyun Cho, Kevin Liu et al.
    Pages 381-427

  13. Collaborative Autonomy Between High-Level Behaviors and Human Operators for Control of Complex Tasks with Different Humanoid Robots

    • David C. Conner, Stefan Kohlbrecher, Philipp Schillinger, Alberto Romay, Alexander Stumpf, Spyros Maniatopoulos et al.
    Pages 429-494

  14. WALK-MAN Humanoid Platform

    • N. G. Tsagarakis, F. Negrello, M. Garabini, W. Choi, L. Baccelliere, V. G. Loc et al.
    Pages 495-548

  15. An Architecture for Human-Guided Autonomy: Team TROOPER at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

    • Steven Gray, Robert Chevalier, David Kotfis, Benjamin Caimano, Kenneth Chaney, Aron Rubin et al.
    Pages 549-582

  16. Team VALOR’s ESCHER: A Novel Electromechanical Biped for the DARPA Robotics Challenge

    • Coleman Knabe, Robert Griffin, James Burton, Graham Cantor-Cooke, Lakshitha Dantanarayana, Graham Day et al.
    Pages 583-629

  17. Perspectives on Human-Robot Team Performance from an Evaluation of the DARPA Robotics Challenge

    • Adam Norton, Willard Ober, Lisa Baraniecki, David Shane, Anna Skinner, Holly Yanco
    Pages 631-666

  18. What Happened at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals

    • Christopher G. Atkeson, P. W. Babu Benzun, Nandan Banerjee, Dmitry Berenson, Christoper P. Bove, Xiongyi Cui et al.
    Pages 667-684
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About this book

The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a robotics competition that took place in Pomona, California USA in June 2015. The competition was the culmination of 33 months of demanding work by 23 teams and required humanoid robots to perform challenging locomotion and manipulation tasks in a mock disaster site. The challenge was conceived as a response to the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. The Fukushima disaster was seen as an ideal candidate for robotic intervention since the risk of exposure to radiation prevented human responders from accessing the site. 

This volume, edited by Matthew Spenko, Stephen Buerger, and Karl Iagnemma, includes commentary by the organizers, overall analysis of the results, and documentation of the technical efforts of 15 competing teams. The book provides an important record of the successes and failures involved in the DARPA Robotics Challenge and provides guidance for future needs to be addressed by policy makers, funding agencies, and the robotics research community.   

Many of the papers in this volume were initially published in a series of special issues of the Journal of Field Robotics. We have proudly collected versions of those papers in this STAR volume. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Robotics Lab, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, USA

    Matthew Spenko

  • High Consequence Automation and Robotics, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

    Stephen Buerger

  • Robotic Mobility Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Karl Iagnemma

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue

  • Editors: Matthew Spenko, Stephen Buerger, Karl Iagnemma

  • Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74666-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74665-4Published: 20 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09049-4Published: 11 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74666-1Published: 09 April 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1610-7438

  • Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 684

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 377 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence

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