Dear Robotics Researchers
RoboCup Camp on Rescue Robotics in Rome, Italy will held in Rome.
Venue: Istituto Superiore Antincendi, ROMA - Italy
Date: October 29th - November 2nd 2004
URL: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~multirob/camp04/
Aims and Goals:
Over the course of five days, this event will guide researchers through five distinct elements of effective urban search and rescue (USAR) robots and associated development tools. Lecturers addressing each element will introduce state-of-the-art components, approaches, and algorithms applied to search robots for all researchers to understand. Then each lecturer will facilitate hands-on development sessions with a subset of researchers to implement demonstrable capabilities for each particular technology within the on-site RoboCupRescue arenas.
Researchers will work with components with the aim of integrating them into a "common search robot platform" (CSRP), which can be made available to the community (in kit form) as an entry level, but reasonably effective, search robot. The ultimate outcome of this event will be modular solutions for each of the five technology elements made available to new and existing RoboCupRescue teams as a resource for augmenting their existing competencies to produce system oriented solutions. In addition, one of the five groups will work with the USARsim arena simulation environment (a high fidelity simulation of existing RoboCupRescue arenas and robots) as a development tool for programmers interested in search robots, and as the basis for a possible new RoboCupRescue league, bridging the gap between the fast-growing real robot league and the rescue simulation league.
Program:
The program of the camp is organized into the following five sections:
Mobility behaviours
Mapping
Victim Identification
Multi-Robot Collaboration and Human-Robot Interfaces
USARsim arena simulation environment
Each section will include classes (3.45 h) + lab. Activity (15h). Each researcher has to select one section for the lab activities (5 groups of 6 researchers). However, researchers are expected to attend all classes. The plan is to expose the researchers to each activity in the first day of the camp to start the lab activities and then interleave class and lab time as needed for each section. A brief description of each section is given below.
1. Mobility Behaviors
GOAL: Definition and execution of pertinent mobility behaviors for search tasks (i.e., obstacle avoidance, stair climbing/descending, centering through gaps, inverting, opening doors, etc.) This group will develop empirically effective algorithms and modular code to demonstrate such behaviors in the CSRP.
2. Mapping and Planning
GOAL: Application of advanced ranging sensors to develop 2D, 2-1/2D, and 3D maps. This group will deploy new flash ladar technology to map confined indoor spaces and develop empirically effective algorithms and modular code to demonstrate accurate mapping and path planning.
3. Victim Identification
GOAL: Application of advanced sensors to identify victim situations and states (i.e., omni-directional IR camera devices, stereo vision, and FLIR sensors, etc.) This group will implement these advanced sensors to identify victims in complex environments and develop empirically effective algorithms and modular code to demonstrate accurate assessment of victim information.
4. Multi-Robot Collaboration and Human-Robot Interfaces
GOAL: Application of advanced robot communication techniques and effective human-robot interface (HRI) design elements to improve remote situational awareness and management of multi-robot teams. This group will implement immersive head's up display goggles, head-tracking systems for gaze-control, and infrastructures for multi-robot cooperation with applications to victim search and localization.
5. USARsim Arena Simulation Environment
GOAL: Development of expertise in programming sensory perception, intelligent behaviors, and planning within already developed USAR arena simulation environments along with a model of the CSRP and other pertinent robots. This group will demonstrate the basic functionality, and define essential rules and procedures for a possible new RoboCupRescue league of teams competing within these high-fidelity simulations.
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Dept. Computer & Systems Engineering, Kobe Univ.
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