Practical Challenges in Deploying Autonomy to Offroad Vehicles

Watch a virtual fireside chat with CMU Professor Matthew Travers and Cargotec-Hiab engineering leader Dr. Mohammad M. Aref on their experience overcoming the challenges of deploying autonomous machines to complex offroad environments such as in tunnels at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, in the desert, at ports, and at construction sites. They discuss the reality of optimal algorithms and practical, simple algorithms in the field, the impact of hardware choices, the need for verifiability and long-term reliability, the importance of system-level design, and the engineering collaboration behind building an autonomous offroad machine.

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Professor Matthew Travers from Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Mohammad M. Aref from Cargotec-Hiab