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ARGOS Challenge

The ARGOS Challenge was a robotic competition sponsored by Total between 2013 and 2017 and co-organized with Agence nationale de la recherche. The acronym ARGOS stands for Autonomous Robot for Gas and Oil Sites.

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The ARGOS Challenge was a robotic competition sponsored by Total between 2013 and 2017 and co-organized with Agence nationale de la recherche. The acronym ARGOS stands for Autonomous Robot for Gas and Oil Sites.1

After a gas leak occurred at the Elgin-Franklin fields and resulted in a months long shut down of production and evacuation of personnel, Total decided to apply an open-innovation approach to develop robots for increasing the safety of oil and gas production sites.2

The competition was won by an Austrian-German team called "Argonauts", consisting of members from Austrian robot maker Taurob GmbH and TU Darmstadt with a variant of the taurob tracker robot.34

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  1. "Argos Challenge". Argos Challenge Homepage. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  2. "Enhanced Safety Thanks to the ARGOS Challenge". Total Homepage. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  3. "Roboter der TU Darmstadt gewinnt internationalen Wettbewerb". Echo Zeitungen GmbH. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  4. "THE ARGONAUTS ROBOT WINS THE ARGOS CHALLENGE!". Total Group Homepage. Retrieved 13 May 2017.