Space Robotics Challenge

Robot Valkyrie de la NASA. — NASA's Valkyrie robot

Space Robotics Challenge was a programming competition organized by NASA in 2017 where teams had to program the humanoid robot Valkyrie. A total of 93 teams participated in the qualification stage and 20 teams qualified for the finals^[1]. The competition's objective was to program Valkyrie in a simulation running in the Gazebo robotics simulator^[2]. In simulation, the robot had to complete several tasks to fix a base on Mars. The winning team was Coordinated Robotics and its only member, Kevin Knoedler^[3]. The winner received the sum of $125000 US dollars and a bonus of $50000 dollars for completing all checkpoints. The competition was very similar to the Virtual Robotics Challenge, part of DARPA Robotics Challenge^[4].

Valkyrie solving the second task in simulation.

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[1] "NASA Announces Space Robotics Challenge Finalists" (in en). https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/nasa-announces-space-robotics-challenge-finalists.

[2] "ROSCon 2017: Space Robotics Challenge backstage: A glimpse at the challenges of running the competition -- Ian Chen and Louise Poubel (Open Robotics) - ROS robotics news". http://www.ros.org/news/2018/07/roscon-2017-space-robotics-challenge-backstage-a-glimpse-at-the-challenges-of-running-the-competitio.html.

[3] "How a One-Man Team From California Won NASA's Space Robotics Challenge" (in en). https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/coordinated-robotics-winner-nasa-space-robotics-challenge.

[4] "NASA's Space Robotics Challenge: The Tasks, the Prizes, and How to Participate" (in en). https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/nasa-space-robotics-challenge-tasks-prizes-how-to-participate.

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