@conference {Tedrake14a, title = {A summary of team MIT{\textquoteright}s approach to the virtual robotics challenge}, booktitle = {Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on}, year = {2014}, note = {[[{"fid":"3193356","view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"360","width":"480","alt":"A Summary of Team MIT{\textquoteright}s Approach to the Virtual Robotics Challenge on YouTube","title":"A Summary of Team MIT{\textquoteright}s Approach to the Virtual Robotics Challenge","class":"media-element file-default"}}]]}, pages = {2087{\textendash}2087}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, abstract = {The paper describes the system developed by researchers from MIT for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency{\textquoteright}s (DARPA) Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC), held in June 2013. The VRC was the first competition in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a program that aims to {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}develop ground robotic capabilities to execute complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}. The VRC required teams to guide a model of Boston Dynamics{\textquoteright} humanoid robot, Atlas, through driving, walking, and manipulation tasks in simulation. Team MIT{\textquoteright}s user interface, the Viewer, provided the operator with a unified representation of all available information. A 3D rendering of the robot depicted its most recently estimated body state with respect to the surrounding environment, represented by point clouds and texture-mapped meshes as sensed by on-board LIDAR and fused over time.}, isbn = {978-1-4799-3685-4}, doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907140}, author = {Russ Tedrake and Fallon, Maurice and Karumanchi, Sisir and Scott Kuindersma and Antone, Matthew and Schneider, Toby and Howard, Tom and Walter, M. and Dai, H. and Deits, R. and Fleder, M. and Fourie, D. and Hammoud, R. and Hemachandra, S. and Ilardi, P. and Perez-D{\textquoteright}Arpino, C. and Pillai, S and Valenzuela, A. and Cantu, C. and Dolan, C. and Evans, I. and Jorgensen, S. and Kristeller, J. and Shah, J.A. and Iagnemma, K. and Teller, S.} }