Robots are playing an important role in the military application. Most of the work in the military is dangerous for human being. In a war field or rescue operation a soldier needs to take his own way to reach the destination. Most of the ways are dangerous for a soldier. Hence robot replaces the soldier and path planning is depending on the image processing and microcontroller based embedded sy...

This paper describes the Swarthmore College entry in the 2003 Urban Search and Rescue [USR] Event at the 2003 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Robot Competition. The primary focus of Swarthmore’s entry was the development of a fast, responsive user interface for effectively tele-operating a robot with some autonomous capability. This interface was inspired by first-person video ...

The World Trade Center (WTC) rescue response provided an unfortunate opportunity to study the human-robot interactions (HRI) during a real unstaged rescue for the first time. A post-hoc analysis was performed on the data collected during the response, which resulted in 17 findings on the impact of the environment and conditions on the HRI: the skills displayed and needed by robots and humans, t...

The rapid advancement of technology empowered by artificial intelligence is believed to intensify the collaboration between humans and AI as team partners. Successful requires partners learn about each other task. This human-AI co-learning can be achieved presenting situations that enable share knowledge experiences. In this paper we describe development implementation a task context procedures...

While the goal of Urban Search and Rescue is the autonomous mapping of a damaged building coupled with the location of human victims, artificial intelligence is not yet advanced enough to fully support such a rich and complex domain. Human teleoperation of robots is still relied upon extensively in this and many other domains, but suffers because of operator fatigue and problems with situationa...

Using this technique, a robot can operate in an environment without a priori knowledge of a map and its location in the world. This is a critical skill that can be utilized in a wide range of applications that require a robot to be able to explore a region and return to its starting location, learn different paths to key locations in a world, and to traverse a region completely. Such applicatio...

This paper discusses the general concept of the Super Mechano-System, or SMS and its anticipated applications. The SMS is a new type of robot system, which can transform its shape and also its internal control system in accordance with the given tasks. Snake robots, running and walking robot with manipulation function, group robots, and unified and reconfigurable robots are the three main examp...

T s s a target itself. Another example is to guard a secured environment, where it is important to be covert as well as overt at the same time, in this way the chances are higher for the robot to see an intruder before the opposite happens. A covert robot may be used as well for hostage rescue, for example by sending an insect size covert robot with a camera to the hostage area to send images t...

Using this technique, a robot can operate in an environment without a priori knowledge of a map and its location in the world. This is a critical skill that can be utilized in a wide range of applications that require a robot to be able to explore a region and return to its starting location, learn different paths to key locations in a world, and to traverse a region completely. Such applicatio...