Autonomous Subterranean Exploration with ANYmal C Robot

In the past few months, we have covered plenty of videos that show how the ANYmal C Robot can take on challenging exploration tasks. This video shows it autonomously exploring inside the Hagerbach underground mine.

As the researchers explain:

The onboard path planner is unified across legged and flying robots and enables navigation in environments with steep slopes, and diverse geometries. When a communication link is available, each robot of the team shares submaps to a centralized location where a multi-robot coordination framework identifies global frontiers of the exploration space to best inform each system where it should re-position to best continue its mission.

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