Carlyn Lee
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Carlyn Lee is a leading roboticist whose work centers on autonomous navigation and multi-robot coordination in extreme, GPS-denied environments. As a core member of TEAM CoSTAR, she made pivotal contributions to the NeBula autonomy framework, which secured victory in Phase II of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Her research addresses the formidable challenges of perception, mapping, and decision-making in dark, dusty, and structurally complex underground spaces. Lee’s most cited work, the 2021 paper “NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments” (105 citations), details the integrated hardware and software architecture that enabled robots to explore tunnels and urban disaster zones without human intervention. A follow-up publication (51 citations) further refines these solutions, showcasing how her team’s innovations in resilient communication and collaborative SLAM pushed the boundaries of field robotics. By demonstrating that teams of autonomous robots can reliably operate where humans cannot, Lee has laid critical groundwork for applications in search-and-rescue, mining, and planetary exploration, establishing herself as a key architect of next-generation robotic autonomy.
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