UvA Rescue Team 2008 Team Description Paper Virtual Robot competition Rescue Simulation League RoboCup 2008

With the progress made in active exploration, the robots of the UvA Rescue Team are capable of making deliberative decisions about the frontiers to be explored. The robots select the frontiers with maximum information gain. The robots incorporate the positions of their team mates in their decisions, to optimize the gain for the team as a whole. The active exploration is based on the shared occupancy map, which is online generated. During the exploration the robots are constantly looking for victims, which for the UvA Rescue Team is performed by looking for typical color histograms in the images of the omnidirectional camera.