This article describes the simulation of distributed autonomous robots for search and rescue operations. The simulation system is utilized to perform experiments with various control strategies for the robot team and team organizations, evaluating the comparative performance of the strategies and organizations. The objective of the robot team is to, once deployed in an environment (floor-plan) ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been a very important requirement for the purpose of rescue of patients in emergency. But unavailability of trained technicians at the time of need has been a problem. Robotic systems capable of performing the cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be a potential solution. In this paper, a design of robotic system for CPR and its optimization has been presente...

In this work we mtmduce a new concept of a searcb and rescue robotic system that is composed of an elephant trunk-like robot mounted on a mobile base. This system is capable not only of inspecling areas reachable by the mobile base but also to iaspCct unnachable areas such as small cracks, and pipes, using the camera mounted on its elephant trunk robot. In the report we describe &e mechanical s...

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been steadily gaining popularity among robotics researchers as an open source framework for robot control. The Uni ed 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 betw...

The potential of robot swarms for Search and Rescue has been shown by the Guardians project (EU, 2006-2010); however the project also showed the problem of human robot interaction in smoky (non-visibility) and noisy conditions. The REINS project (UK, 2011-2015) focused on human robot interaction in such conditions. This paper briefly reviews the scientific context relevant for designing a hapti...

In search and rescue missions, the sensors on the Absolem mobile robot used in the TRADR project can fail due to environmental conditions like smoke and dust, making further robot operation difficult and dangerous for the robot. In such cases, the robot-mounted robotic arm can be used to gain information about the environment by obtaining tactile measurements from it. We propose an algorithm to...

Swarthmore’s entries to this year’s AAAI Mobile Robot competition won second place in the Urban Search and Rescue event and Third Place in the Robot Host competition. This article describes the features of Frodo and Rose, the two-robot team, and discusses their performance. The most important design feature that made the robots successful was a modular software design and communication interfac...

Sensor-based coverage problems have many applications such as patrolling, search-rescue, and surveillance. Using multi-robot team increases efficiency by reducing completion time of a sensor-based coverage task. Robustness to robot failures is another advantage of using multiple robots for coverage. Although there are many works to increase the efficiency of coverage methods, there are few work...