Title :
The RoboCup-Rescue: an IT challenge to emergency response problem in disaster
Author :
Tadkoro, S. ; Kitano, Hiroaki ; Takahashi, Hironao ; Noda, Itsuki ; Matsubara, Hitoshi ; Shinjoh, Atsushi ; Koto, Tetsuhiko ; Takeuchi, Ichiro ; Takahashi, Hiroki ; Matsuno, Fumitoshi ; Hatayama, Mitsunori ; Ohta, Masayuki ; Tayama, Masayuki ; Matsui, Tak
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Eng., Kobe Univ., Japan
Abstract :
RoboCup-Rescue is an international cooperative research project that IT, AI and robotics challenge to solve a universal social problem, search and rescue at emergency disasters. This paper describes this project from the viewpoint of technological challenge. It also presents RoboCup-Rescue Simulation Project where a prototype has been released attracting researchers worldwide. This project is open to the public and calling participation of researchers and research groups
Keywords :
disasters; earthquakes; emergency services; intelligent control; mobile robots; AI; IT; RoboCup-Rescue; disaster; emergency response problem; international cooperative research project; robotics; search; Art; Artificial intelligence; Data engineering; Earthquakes; Electronic mail; Humans; Laboratories; Modeling; Robots; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 2000. IECON 2000. 26th Annual Confjerence of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Nagoya
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6456-2
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2000.973137
