SODIUM-24

AI, robotics, RF, and cybersecurity research. Former DARPA Subterranean Challenge and DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge finalist

[Malcolm Stagg @malcolmst]

I’m excited to be presenting at Black Hat USA this year! My presentation is titled “Breaking Trust Boundaries: Exploiting Design Assumptions in Network Infrastructure” https://t.co/kFwlmr4uEG

[DARPA @DARPA]

📢 New Prize Challenge Announcement 📢 Join us, @AnthropicAI, @BlackHatEvents, @defcon, @Google, @Microsoft, @OpenAI, and @openssf for the AI Cyber Challenge (#AIxCC) -- a competition to automatically find/fix software vulnerabilities. Details: https://t.co/BreUi0xoWd

[Perri Adams @perribus]

I’m excited to announce the AI Cyber Challenge, a major, two-year @DARPA competition challenging the best and the brightest in cybersecurity and AI to secure the systems on which all American rely.

https://t.co/mZR4ZNSiaM

[SODIUM-24 @sodium_24]

@mjwhansen @JohnAthayde @tenlinesofcode I didn’t deduct research expenses at all this year due to extra complexity of switching to amortized then switching back when this is fixed. My expenses weren’t huge this year but I feel really bad for many small businesses doing R&D that were hurt. Congress needs to fix this!

[Malcolm Stagg @malcolmst]

Would have liked to see my robots score more points, but great to see them exploring and finding artifacts. Congratulations to all the competitors, and many thanks to @DARPA and @OpenRoboticsOrg for all your hard work in putting on this competition! https://t.co/wYzVyAxjLU

[Malcolm Stagg @malcolmst]

Had a great time at the @DARPA #SubTChallenge final event in Louisville, KY! Really nice to meet the other teams, and tour the incredible course for the robots to explore. My robots placed 6th after scoring 69 points, and earned the “Massive Map” award (1/2)

[SODIUM-24 @sodium_24]

Stairs are currently treated as a negative obstacle for the UGV’s, but can be affected by obstacle inflation radius parameters as well as any mapping errors. Stair descent behavior is still a WIP and so was not enabled for this event

[SODIUM-24 @sodium_24]

The UGV that went partway down the stairs likely intended to go down the ramp, but turned too late and got caught on the stairs. #SubTChallenge

[DARPA @DARPA]

Tune in today from 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT to see coverage of the DARPA SubT Challenge Virtual prize round and Systems preliminary round. https://t.co/omXeP8k8hd #robots #SubTChallenge

[SODIUM-24 @sodium_24]

This was set pretty conservatively, and exploration speed is definitely a potential area for future improvement

[SODIUM-24 @sodium_24]

Also, the speed of the X500 UAV was limited primarily for reasons of mapping accuracy #SubTChallenge

[SODIUM-24 @sodium_24]

Watching coverage of @DARPA #SubTChallenge virtual final event from Louisville, KY!

[DARPA @DARPA]

Three years, three prior Circuit Events, and it all comes down to the @DARPA #SubTChallenge Final Event September 21-24. Join us on a short tour on the (underground) road to the SubT Challenge!https://t.co/HiFUOXHTGb

[DARPA @DARPA]

Team members from around the world are getting ready for the @DARPA #SubTChallenge Final Event at the Louisville Mega Cavern 21-24 Sept! Here's a map showing where the competitors are coming from. See the state of the art in #robotics at https://t.co/omXeP82xpF

[DARPA @DARPA]

12 teams competed in the Virtual Competition Preliminary Round of the #SubTChallenge Final Event using 75 simulated #robots. Tune in to see who wins on Sept 21-24!

[Evan Ackerman @BotJunkie]

YESSSS can't wait for this, @IEEESpectrum will be there!

[Malcolm Stagg @malcolmst]

Excited to have my virtual robots on the roster for the @DARPA #SubTChallenge final event in Louisville, KY, competing as team @sodium_24 Robotics!

[Malcolm Stagg @malcolmst]

Still have a lot more work to do over the next several weeks, but looking forward to seeing my robots compete in the final event for the SubT Challenge!

[SODIUM-24 @sodium_24]

Forked copy is available at https://t.co/SRnAMS4qrk in case anyone is looking for this (original link is no longer active)

[SODIUM-24 @sodium_24]

Awesome to see the #DARPASC2 CIRN Interaction Language (CIL) open-sourced and published on Github! Looking forward to seeing how this protocol plays a role in the next generation of AI radio technologies. https://t.co/WEyvwxZQlY

[DARPA @DARPA]

Three Finals Practice Worlds, based on favorites from the Circuit Events, are available on the SubT Virtual Testbed and Cloudsim. Also, available in the Tech Repo is the virtual model of the 10th artifact, the SubT Challenge Cube! #SubTChallenge