FC Portugal 2005 Rescue Team Description: Adapting Simulated Soccer Coordination Methodologies to the Search and Rescue Domain

FC Portugal Rescue team is the result of a cooperation project between the Universities of Aveiro and Porto in Portugal. The project started in January 2004 following previous collaborations of these two Portuguese Universities in RoboCup simulation league and associated competitions: coach competition, simulation league presentation competition and simulation 3D competition. FC Portugal Rescue project intends to fully adapt the coordination methodologies developed by FC Portugal simulated soccer team to the search and rescue scenario. Although our team was not ready for participating in RoboCup 2004, the first results achieved were very encouraging, making us believe that, after fully implementing our simulated soccer coordination methodologies in our rescue team, our result may be a