Title :
Robotics for Urban Search and Rescue
Author :
Dissanayake, Gamini ; Paxman, Jonathan ; Miro, Jaime Valls ; Thane, Oliver ; Thi, Hue-Tuan
Author_Institution :
Centre for Autonomous Syst., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
This paper describes a team of robots that are designed for urban search and rescue applications. The team CASualty consists of four tele-operated robots and one autonomous robot. A brief description of the capabilities of the robot team is presented together with the details of capabilities of the autonomous robot HOMER. In particular, the software architecture, user interface, strategies used for mapping, exploration and the identification of human victims present in the environment are described. The team participated in an international competition on urban search and rescue (RoboCup Rescue) held in Bremen, Germany in June 2006 where HOMER was placed second in the autonomy challenge
Keywords :
mobile robots; multi-robot systems; service robots; software architecture; telerobotics; user interfaces; Bremen; CASualty team; Germany; HOMER autonomous robot; RoboCup; environment mapping; human victims exploration; human victims identification; international competition; rescue applications; software architecture; tele-operated robots; urban search applications; user interface; Buildings; Face detection; Humans; Information systems; NIST; Personnel; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Service robots; Thermal sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial and Information Systems, First International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Peradeniya
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0322-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICIIS.2006.365740
