Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
CSIRO's Robotics and Autonomous Systems group is competing in the DARPA SubT Challenge. This video depicts a sample of our submission for the STIX (SubT Integration Exercise) qualification. This shows a tracked platform (one of many modalities to be used in the challenge) with our custom perception payload autonomously navigating across rough ground and through a subterranean environment, whilst autonomously detecting and classifying objects.
Learn more about our participation in the DARPA SubT Challenge here:
https://research.csiro.au/robotics/we-qualified-darpa-subt-challenge-csiro-december-update/
This research was developed with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The views, opinions and/or findings expressed are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.
Music:
Transportation by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: audionautix.com
CSIRO's Robotics and Autonomous Systems group is competing in the DARPA SubT Challenge. This video depicts a sample of our submission for the STIX (SubT Integration Exercise) qualification. This shows a tracked platform (one of many modalities to be used in the challenge) with our custom perception payload autonomously navigating across rough ground and through a subterranean environment, whilst autonomously detecting and classifying objects.
Learn more about our participation in the DARPA SubT Challenge here:
https://research.csiro.au/robotics/we-qualified-darpa-subt-challenge-csiro-december-update/
This research was developed with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The views, opinions and/or findings expressed are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.
Music:
Transportation by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: audionautix.com

![Zebedee Handheld 3D Mapping System
Handheld laser mapping system developed at CSIRO that is able to generate 3D maps in GPS denied areas (indoors, underground, etc). The system consists of a Hokuyo 2D lidar (30m maximum range), with a battery and a laptop in a backpack. Specialized software computes the 6DoF position and orientation of the sensor and generates a 3D point cloud model of the environment in real-time. In addition to indoor spaces, the system also functions outdoors, including in natural environments.
A new video featuring Zebedee: http://youtu.be/DUEAz_naHHg
Publications describing the Zebedee system:
[1] https://db.tt/lUIKVWXD or http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2012.2200990
M. Bosse, R. Zlot, and P. Flick, Zebedee: Design of a Spring-Mounted 3-D Range Sensor with Application to Mobile Mapping, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28(5), October 2012.
[2] https://db.tt/V31Qepgj or http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630945
M. Bosse and R. Zlot, Place Recognition Using Keypoint Voting in Large 3D Lidar Datasets, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013.
Further information can be found at http://wiki.csiro.au/display/ASL/Zebedee Zebedee Handheld 3D Mapping System](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uj9BKcnXOyo/mqdefault.jpg)








