Scott Tepsuporn
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About
Scott Tepsuporn is a leading roboticist whose work pushes the boundaries of autonomous systems in the most extreme environments on Earth and beyond. His research centers on field robotics, multi-agent coordination, and resilient autonomy, with a particular focus on enabling robots to operate in communication-degraded, GPS-denied, and hazardous settings. As a key member of TEAM CoSTAR, Tepsuporn contributed to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, developing the NeBula autonomy framework that secured first place in the competition’s Urban and Tunnel circuits. His highly cited 2021 paper on NeBula (105 citations) and its 2022 follow-up (51 citations) detail the algorithms and architecture that allowed teams of legged and flying robots to explore unknown underground networks without human intervention. He also pioneered supervised autonomy strategies for subterranean exploration (51 citations) and developed the CARACaS system for multi-agent maritime patrol with unmanned surface vehicles. More recently, Tepsuporn has advanced lunar navigation with the LunarNav crater-based localization system (33 citations) and contributed to mission autonomy prototypes for complex space missions like the Europa Lander concept. His work bridges the gap between terrestrial disaster response and planetary exploration, demonstrating robust, scalable autonomy that operates where communication is intermittent and the environment is unforgiving.
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