{"id":94762,"date":"2019-08-14T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/darpa-subterranean-challenge-tunnel-circuit-preview"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:23:15","slug":"darpa-subterranean-challenge-tunnel-circuit-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/darpa-subterranean-challenge-tunnel-circuit-preview","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Tunnel Circuit Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tunnel Circuit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subtchallenge.com\/\">DARPA Subterranean Challenge<\/a> starts later this week at the NIOSH research mine just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 15\u201322 August, 11 teams will send robots into a mine that they\u2019ve never seen before, with the goal of making maps and locating items. All DARPA SubT events involve tunnels of one sort or another, but in this case, the \u201cTunnel Circuit\u201d refers to mines as opposed to urban underground areas or natural caves. This month\u2019s challenge is the first of three discrete events leading up to a huge final event in August of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>While the Tunnel Circuit competition will be closed to the public, and media are only allowed access for a single day (which we\u2019ll be at, of course), DARPA has provided a substantial amount of information about what teams will be able to expect. We also have details from the SubT Integration Exercise, called STIX, which was a completely closed event that took place back in April. STIX was aimed at giving some teams (and DARPA) a chance to practice in a real tunnel environment.<\/p>\n<p>For more general background on SubT, here are some articles to get you all caught up:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tunnel Circuit of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge starts later this week at the NIOSH research mine just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 15\u201322 August, 11 teams will send robots into a mine that they\u2019ve never seen before, with the goal of making maps and locating items. All DARPA SubT events involve tunnels of one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}