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EE Prof. Hyun Myung’s Team wins the 2nd Prize among Academia in IEEE ICRA 2022 SLAM Challenge

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[Hyungtae Lim (PhD student), event officials, Prof. Hyun Myung, from the left)

Title: EE Prof. Hyun Myung’s Team wins the 2nd Prize in Academia at the Future of Construction Workshop in IEEE ICRA 2022  
 
Team QAIST (advisor: Prof. Hyun Myung) wins the 2nd prize at HILTI Challenge 2022 held in Future of Construction: Build Faster, Better, Safer – Together with Robots Workshop at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) held in Philadelphia, USA during May 23-27, 2022.  
HILTI SLAM Challenge 2022 is  organized by HILTI Corp. in Liechtenstein, Oxford Robotics Institute in Oxford University, and Robotics and Perception Group in ETH Zürich.  
This Challenge is a competition for accurate mapping by developing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms that can robustly operate even in construction environments and degeneracy environments such as narrow indoor environments that lack features. Among the  40 teams around the world, team QAIST wins the 2nd prize in the Academia. They will receive  USD 3,000 as a cash prize.  
   
Details on this good news are as follows:   
 

l  Name of Conference: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 

l  Name of Workshop and Date: Future of Construction: Build Faster, Better, Safer – Together with Robots Workshop, 23rd, May, 2022 

l  Prize: 2nd Prize among Academia (USD 3,000) 

l  Participants: Team QAIST (Quatro + KAIST). Hyungtae Lim, Daeboem Kim, Beomsoo Kim, Seungwon Song, Alex Junho Lee, Seungjae Lee, and Prof. Hyun Myung