euRathlon 2015: A Multi-domain Multi-robot Grand Challenge for Search and Rescue Robots

Winfield, Alan; Franco, Marta Palau; Brueggemann, B.; Castro, Amilcar de; Limon, M. Cordero; Ferri, Gabriele; Ferreira, Fausto; Liu, Xingkun; Pétillot, Yvan; Röning, Juha; Schneider, Frank E.; Stengler, Erik; Sosa, Dario; Viguria, Antidio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_36

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“…Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the ERL Emergency Grand Challenge can only be overcome when land, underwater, and flying robots successfully cooperate. It is a continuation of the previously organized euRathlon challenge (Winfield et al, ).…”

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confidence: 95%

Low‐cost solution in international robotic challenge: Lessons learned by Tuscany Robotics Team at ERL Emergency Robots 2017

Limosani

Manzi

Faggiani

et al. 2018

Journal of Field Robotics

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European Robotics League (ERL) Emergency Robots is an outdoor robotics contest focusing on multidomain emergency response scenarios. In this context, the deployed robots are expected to fulfill land, underwater, and flying cooperative tasks which emulate real-world situations inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident.Participation of the Tuscany Robotics Team at ERL Emergency Robots 2017 was deeply affected by damage to (and resulting unavailability of) the unmanned ground vehicle to be used in the competition. This damage occurred 3 days before the challenge. An entirely new working mobile platform was built from scratch using a low-cost chassis. It was able to compete with the other participants in the challenge and achieved various tasks (~83% of the tasks completed by the best performer).The paper provides a complete description of the work carried out and the system used during the competition. The development was based on low-cost solutions, in particular:• Adoption of open-hardware and open-software technology, providing cheap and fastprototyping solutions.• Use of smartphones, allowing sophisticated sensors to be exploited in an affordable way.• Employment of Cloud infrastructures, to reduce the computational burden of offloading heavy processes.Results of this experience represent a concrete demonstration, showing that even lowcost solutions can achieve complex tasks, such as those required for the European robotic competition. The presented lessons learned aim to provide guidelines useful for reacting to unexpected events. Finally, the team was honored with the Creativity

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Low‐cost solution in international robotic challenge: Lessons learned by Tuscany Robotics Team at ERL Emergency Robots 2017

Limosani

Manzi

Faggiani

et al. 2018

Journal of Field Robotics

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“…Portuguese Society of Robotics (SPR) 9 . The team has also won the Grand Challenge of two international competitions of search and rescue robots: euRathlon 10 [48, 49], in 2015, and ERL Emergency Robots 11 [50], in 2017, using the OTUS and STORK UAVs, respectively.…”

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Real- Time LiDAR-based Power Lines Detection for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Azevedo

Dias

Almeida

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)

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Esta dissertação foi resultado do contributo, direto ou indireto, de diversas pessoas, as quais deixo, desde já, uma palavra de sincera gratidão. Gostaria de começar os meus agradecimentos pelos Engenheiros José Almeida e André Dias, tanto pelo desafio apresentado, ao me atribuirem um tema ainda pouco explorado, como pelo auxílio prestado durante o desenvolvimento deste projeto. A todos os que fazem ou já fizeram parte do LSA, estou grato por tudo o que me ensinaram, pela ajuda que me forneceram e pelos momentos de convívio. Agradeço também aos meus colegas de curso pela caminhada conjunta, em que todos trocámos impressões e conhecimentos benéficos. Dirijo ainda um grande agradecimento aos meus colegas de grupo de trabalho, Alexandre Oliveira, André Ferreira, Miguel Moreira e Tiago Santos, tanto pelas conquistas obtidas, como pelo apoio constante que me deram, não esquecendo os momentos divertidos! Ao João Pedro Ribeiro fico grato pelas dicas, opiniões e ajuda na resolução de diversos problemas. Ao Denys Sytnyk, por ser o Dinis... Para com os meus pais, Avelino Azevedo e Eugénia Azevedo, estarei eternamente grato pelos esforços que fizeram, pela educação que me proporcionaram e pelas condições que criaram para que pudesse chegar até aqui. O meu reconhecimento finalé para alguém muito especial na minha vida: a minha namorada e companheira. Obrigado Carla Gomes! Pelo teu carinho, compreensão, apoio e motivação, nunca esquecendo das coisas de que abdicaste em prol do meu trabalho. Obrigado.

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“…One example application domain where the use of an in-flight launched rotorcraft could be of great use is the field of search and rescue, where multiple heterogeneous UAVs are being used already [3], [5]. We therefore decided to validate the applicability of the in-flight launch concept in a search and rescue scenario, where a larger carrier UAV is requested to carry a close-in inspection UAV to a certain location (the location at which the incident is supposed to have taken place).…”

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“…Serrano et al proposed in [2] an interoperability concept that enables the messagepassing and collaborative control for multiple heterogeneous UAVs and applied that concept to heterogeneous systems developed within the context of the ICARUS project [3]. They put the interoperability and collaboration concept in [4] into practice in a search and rescue case for the euRathlon challenge [5], where multiple heterogeneous systems (though not all airborne) were validated in a Fukushima-like response simulation scenario. While these operations entailed the use of heterogeneous UAV operations, none of the systems featured an in-flight launch capability.…”

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A proof of concept of the in-flight launch of unmanned aerial vehicles in a search and rescue scenario

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This article considers the development of a system to enable the in-flight-launch of one aerial system by another. The article discusses how an optimal release mechanism was developed taking into account the aerodynamics of one specific mothership and child Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Furthermore, it discusses the PID-based control concept that was introduced in order to autonomously stabilise the child UAV after being released from the mothership UAV. Finally, the article demonstrates how the concept of a mothership and child UAV combination could be taken advantage of in the context of a search and rescue operation.

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euRathlon 2015: A Multi-domain Multi-robot Grand Challenge for Search and Rescue Robots

Cited by 24 publications

References 4 publications

Low‐cost solution in international robotic challenge: Lessons learned by Tuscany Robotics Team at ERL Emergency Robots 2017

Low‐cost solution in international robotic challenge: Lessons learned by Tuscany Robotics Team at ERL Emergency Robots 2017

Real- Time LiDAR-based Power Lines Detection for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

A proof of concept of the in-flight launch of unmanned aerial vehicles in a search and rescue scenario

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