1.74 Research Scientist -Multi-Robot SLAM

Pittsburgh, PA
Area 1: ML, AI, Autonomy /
Full time /
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1.74 Research Scientist - Multi Robot SLAM

  • 1. Describe the key challenges in designing a SLAM system that supports multiple robots operating in a GPS-denied environment. How would you architect the system to enable shared mapping and distributed localization under communication constraints?
  • 2. How would you incorporate uncertainty into a multi-robot SLAM pipeline, particularly when fusing asynchronous and potentially noisy sensor data from multiple agents?
  • 3. Explain how pose graph optimization is used in SLAM and discuss how you would handle loop closure in a multi-agent scenario. What strategies could you use to ensure robustness against false-positive matches?
  • 4. You're deploying a new SLAM module to a ground robot platform with limited compute (low-SWaP). What steps do you take to profile and optimize the system for real-time operation? What trade-offs might you consider?
  • 5. Describe how you would design and execute a field test to benchmark a new multi-robot SLAM algorithm. What metrics would you collect, and how would you analyze the results to iterate on the design?

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