RoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation Leagues

Akın, H. Levent; Ito, Nobuhiro; Jacoff, Adam; Kleiner, Alexander; Pellenz, Johannes; Visser, A.

doi:10.1609/aimag.v34i1.2458

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“…Simulations have been used to shorten the development time and to check the functions of the sensors. Competitions, such as RoboCup Rescue, provide platforms on which the response robots and algorithms can be tested in the simulated environments of disaster zones where they are intended to operate [2][3][4].…”

Section: School Of Engineering Chukyo Universitymentioning

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Databased Fluctuating Wi-Fi Signal Simulation Environment for Evaluating the Control of Robots

Shimizu

Takahashi

2017

J. SOFT

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Robots were used at the site of the World Trade Center disaster, and they are being used to explore the interior of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant (FDNP). Robots will be used at the FDNP for the next few decades, until the nuclear reactor is finally decommissioned. Wired communications systems have been used to teleoperate robots in hazardous areas where humans cannot work. In this paper, we show the fluctuation of Wi-Fi power strength in a real environment and that the fluctuations utilization is one of the key points to be considered while developing rescue robots for disaster-prone areas. We propose a simulation environment that simulates the fluctuation of the Wi-Fi power strength with a database and evaluates the performance of the robot with unstable Wi-Fi connectivity.

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Section: School Of Engineering Chukyo Universitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Databased Fluctuating Wi-Fi Signal Simulation Environment for Evaluating the Control of Robots

Shimizu

Takahashi

2017

J. SOFT

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“…Currently, a wide variety of sensors are supported; ground truth, inertial navigation, GPS, range-scanners, sonar, CO2 and acoustic sensors are supported. It is our ambition to support all sensors which are used in the RoboCup Rescue competition [1]. This presence of sensors is queried via USARSim's CONF and GEO messages and automatically included the robot transform tree used by ROS.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper examines how a new interface to the ROS control framework (introduced by [5]) can be used inside the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League [1]. The ROS framework allows for easy sharing of modules [9], allowing fast progress.…”

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Enabling Codesharing in Rescue Simulation with USARSim/ROS

Kootbally

Balakirsky

Visser

2014

RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII

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Abstract. The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been steadily gaining popularity among robotics researchers as an open source framework for robot control. The Unied System for Automation and Robot Simulation (USARSim) has been used for many years by robotics researchers and developers as a validated framework for simulation. This paper presents a new ROS node that is designed to seamlessly interface between ROS and USARSim. It provides for automatic conguration of ROS transforms and topics to allow for full utilization of the simulated hardware. The design of the new node as well as examples of its use for mobile robot inside the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League are presented.

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“…However, it is primarily focused to the Search and Rescue domain [3], [4], mainly thanks to the RoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation competitions [5]. In emergency response, the research L. Chrpa focuses on the problem of determining a (nearly) optimal coverage of emergency services [6] where various techniques such as genetic programming [7] or fuzzy reasoning [8] have been used.…”

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On the exploitation of Automated Planning for efficient decision making in road traffic accident management

Chrpa

Vallati

2016

2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

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Abstract-Automated Planning can be fruitfully exploited as a Decision Support toolkit that, given a specification of available actions (elementary decisions to be taken), an initial situation and goals to be achieved, generates a plan that represents a (partially ordered) sequence of such elementary decisions that once performed the required goals are achieved. Road Traffic Accident Management is a life-critical task that deals with effective planning of emergency response when accidents occur, in order to mitigate negative effects, especially saving human lives that might be in imminent danger.In this paper, we exploit Automated Planning in the Road Traffic Accident Management domain. We specifically focus on providing necessary treatment for victims injured during accidents. This involves coordination of medical teams responsible for providing medical treatment to the victims and fire brigades that are required to release victims trapped in damaged vehicles. An empirical analysis, based in the region of West Yorkshire (UK) with a number of real accidents recently occurred there, shows the suitability of the proposed Automated Planning approach to be used in time-critical conditions, and confirms the effectiveness of the generated plans. We also demonstrated its usefulness as a tool for evaluating the impact of additional resources, in order to provide guidance for future investments.

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RoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation Leagues

Cited by 37 publications

References 20 publications

Databased Fluctuating Wi-Fi Signal Simulation Environment for Evaluating the Control of Robots

Databased Fluctuating Wi-Fi Signal Simulation Environment for Evaluating the Control of Robots

Enabling Codesharing in Rescue Simulation with USARSim/ROS

On the exploitation of Automated Planning for efficient decision making in road traffic accident management

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