In July 2019, shortly after the start of the project, some employees of the SNIFFBOT project visited the TU Bergakademie Freiberg to hold a workshop on mining robots with the employees of the Mining-RoX project.
We briefly introduced our project and explained our plans and challenges that lay in the project before us. On the part of the Freiberger team, the workshop was mainly about the Julius robot. The SNIFFBOT team prepared an acquisition of similar robot systems and had questions about robot hardware and control software.
Steve Grehl from the Underground Robotics Group Freiberg laboratory introduced us to the Julius robot and explained where we should pay attention and the difficulties they had to overcome. The ROS tools they developed for underground navigation were explained to us and the robot was shown in action.