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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. François Pomerleau\n	Directeur\, NORLAB\n	Départem
 ent d’informatique et de génie logiciel\, Université Laval\n\nAbstract\n\n
 In September 2021\, the Grand Final of DARPA Subterranean Challenge was he
 ld in Kentucky. The event brought together the largest robotics laboratori
 es from 11 countries with the capacity to deploy a fleet of heterogeneous 
 robots in an unknown\, underground environment. These laboratories include
 d representatives from NASA\, JPL\, Stanford\, MIT\, ETH Zurich\, CMU and 
 the Boreal Robotics Laboratory (Norlab) at Laval University. Thanks to a c
 ollaboration with the Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CRAS) of
  the Czech Technical University (CTU)\, the team originally named CTU-CRAS
 -NORLAB was able to take part in the competition and won several honours d
 uring the four year duration of the challenge. This was the first Canadian
  participation in the DARPA robotic challenge which began almost 20 years 
 ago. For more information on the DARPA Subterranean Challenge\, visit the 
 following website (Subterranean Challenge)\, and click on the team: CTU-CR
 AS-NORLAB\n\nThe presentation will briefly explain the history of DARPA ro
 botics challenges and their motivation. Then\, a description of the underg
 round environment exploration challenge will be given\, as well as a prese
 ntation of the solutions deployed by the CTU-CRAS-NORLAB team. The present
 ation will conclude with a few highlights from the final event as well as 
 some lessons learned from this large-scale experience.\n\nThe presentation
  will be given in French and the slides will be in English.\n\nBio :\n\nFr
 ançois Pomerleau made his debut in research by interacting with the Canadi
 an Space Agency and the European Space Agency during his studies in Comput
 er Engineering at Sherbrooke University. He obtained his Master’s degree (
 François Michaud’s Lab) from this university in 2009 after a one-year stay
  at EPFL (Roland Siegwart Lab – Switzerland) where he worked on an autonom
 ous car prototype. He completed his Ph.D. at ETH Zurich (Roland Siegwart’s
  Lab- Switzerland) in 2013 during this time he participated in several rob
 otic deployments in uncontrolled environments\, including work with Europe
 an fire brigades and in alpine lakes. After technology transfer activities
  at Alstom Inspection Robotics and a stay at Laval University (Philippe Gi
 guère’s Lab)\, he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Natural Scie
 nces and Engineering Research Council of Canada to continue his research a
 t the University of Toronto in Mobile Robotics (Tim Barfoot’s Lab). He con
 tinued his technological transfer activities as a postdoctoral researcher 
 at Laval University in the Robotics Laboratory (Clément Gosselin’s lab) an
 d worked\, in collaboration with the Robotiq company\, to develop the Indu
 stry 4.0. Since September 2017\, he is a professor in the Computer Science
  and Software Engineering Department at Laval University.\n\nHis research 
 interests include 3D reconstruction of environments using laser data\, aut
 onomous navigation\, search and rescue activities\, environmental monitori
 ng\, trajectory planning and scientific methodology applied to robotics.\n
 \nZoom Meeting\n	To obtain the Zoom meeting web link\, please contact:\n	Ann
 ette.Schwerdtfeger [at] gel.ulaval.ca\n
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LOCATION:CA\, ZOOM
SUMMARY:Résultats de la première participation canadienne au prestigieux DA
 RPA Subterranean Challenge 
URL:/cim/channels/event/resultats-de-la-premiere-parti
 cipation-canadienne-au-prestigieux-darpa-subterranean-challenge-335448
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