Urban search and rescue robots: from tragedy to technology

Davids, Anthony

doi:10.1109/5254.999224

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“…De forma paralela el tema era tratado por un grupo de investigadores japoneses, quienes promovían el fútbol de robots para desarrollar avances en inteligencia artificial, durante el Worshop on Grand Challenges of Artificial Intelligence en octubre de 1992 en Tokio [7]. Basados en las conclusiones obtenidas, en junio de 1993 un grupo de investigadores en robótica, entre los cuales se incluyen Minoru Asada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Hiroaki Kitan, deciden crear una competición de fútbol de robots, tentativamente llamada Robot J-League (Japanese Professional soccer league, o liga profesional Japonesa de fútbol de robots) [8].…”

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Fútbol de robots: orígenes, federaciones, ligas y horizontes de investigación

Guarnizo

2016

Ingenium Rev. fac. ing.

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ResumenEn las últimas décadas el fútbol de robots ha adquirido importancia entre investigadores relacionados en el campo de la robótica, ya que ha permitido encontrar un entorno adecuado para la investigación en temas como visión artificial, locomoción, localización y navegación, así como coordinación de robots, entre otros. A raíz de esto, distintos grupos de investigación en diferentes universidades alrededor del mundo han creado sus propios equipos de fútbol de robots, con el fin de participar en distintos torneos con diferentes ligas, compitiendo y permitiendo validar los resultados obtenidos en sus investigaciones en áreas relacionadas. En el presente artículo se realiza una revisión sobre los orígenes del fútbol de robots y sus diferentes ligas, así como una presentación de distintos temas de investigación relacionados en este campo. Palabras claveFIRA, fútbol de robots, Robocopa, robótica, sistemas multiagentes. Investigación AbstractIn previous decades, robot soccer has become important for robotic research, due to provide of an adequate environment for research in areas such as artificial vision, locomotion, localization and navigation, as well as multi-robot systems, and others. Hence, different groups of research in several universities around the world have been working on robot soccer teams, to competing against other robot soccer teams in different leagues of robot soccer and, in this way, to validate the results achieved acquired from their research in related areas. In this paper is presented a review about robot soccer, showing a brief overview about its origin and its leagues, but also a presentation about different topics on research related in this field.

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Fútbol de robots: orígenes, federaciones, ligas y horizontes de investigación

Guarnizo

2016

Ingenium Rev. fac. ing.

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“…In the field of disaster relief robots, contextually-rich and accurate site maps are necessary for mobile robots to navigate safely and carry out rescue and search tasks in an efficient manner. At a disaster site, however, the current robotic platforms lack the automated perceptive data processing capability which hinders first responders' efforts to maneuver robots, keep track of searched areas, and identify victims, key objects and structural weaknesses (Casper and Murphy 2003;Davids 2002). In short, there exists a strong need for automatic object recognition methods for robots deployed in field operations.…”

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Robotic sensing and object recognition from thermal-mapped point clouds

Kim

Chen

Cho

2017

Int J Intell Robot Appl

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Many of the civil structures are more than half way through or nearing their intended service life; frequently assessing and maintaining structural integrity is a top maintenance priority. Robotic inspection technologies using ground and aerial robots with 3D scanning and imaging capabilities have the potential to improve safety and efficiency of infrastructure management. To provide more valuable information to inspectors and agency decision makers, automatic environment sensing and semantic information extraction are fundamental issues in this field. This paper introduces an innovative method for generating thermal-mapped point clouds of a robot's work environment and performing automatic object recognition with the aid of thermal data fused to 3D point clouds. The laser scanned point cloud and thermal data were collected using a custom-designed mobile robot. The multimodal data was combined with a data fusion process based on texture mapping. The automatic object recognition was performed by two processes: segmentation with thermal data and classification with scanned geometric features. The proposed method was validated with the scan data collected in an entire building floor. Experimental results show that the thermal integrated object recognition approach achieved better performance than a geometry only-based approach, with an average recognition accuracy of 93%, precision of 83%, and recall rate of 86% for objects in the tested environment including humans, display monitors and light fixtures.

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“…Because track-driven-based mobile robots can take movements by adapting to the countryside landscape and since they can climb up ordinary stairs and some ground obstacles, they can be extensively applied in various dangerous situations and special environments, like disaster relief, anti-terrorism, military inspection and unmanned combat, so as to accomplish some dangerous and special tasks instead of working people [1,2] .…”

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Research on Dynamics and Stability in the Stairs-Climbing of a Tracked Mobile Robot

Tao

Feng

2012

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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Aiming at the functional requirement of climbing up the stairs, the dynamics and stability during a tracked mobile robot's climbing of stairs is studied. First, from the analysis of its cross-country performance, the mechanical structure of the tracked mobile robot is designed and the hardware composition of its control system is given. Second, based on the analysis to its stairs-climbing process, the dynamical model of stairs-climbing is established by using the classical mechanics method. Next, the stability conditions for its stairs-climbing are determined and an evaluation method of its stairs-climbing stability is proposed, based on a mechanics analysis on the robot's backwards tumbling during the stairs-climbing process. Through simulation and experiments, the effectiveness of the dynamical model and the stability evaluation method of the tracked mobile robot in stairs-climbing is verified, which can provide design and analysis foundations for the tracked mobile robots' stairs-climbing.

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Urban search and rescue robots: from tragedy to technology

Cited by 84 publications

References 13 publications

Fútbol de robots: orígenes, federaciones, ligas y horizontes de investigación

Fútbol de robots: orígenes, federaciones, ligas y horizontes de investigación

Robotic sensing and object recognition from thermal-mapped point clouds

Research on Dynamics and Stability in the Stairs-Climbing of a Tracked Mobile Robot

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