The paper describes the IUB Rugbot, a rugged mobile robot that features quite some on-board intelligence. The robot and its software is the latest development of the IUB rescue robot team, which is active since 2001 in this research area. IUB robotics takes an integrated approach to rescue robots. This means that the development of the according systems ranges from the basic mechatronics to the...

− Future society must be utopia in which every constituent can share equal welfare. In particular, it should be a society where the elderly and the physically handicapped can lead their lives happily along with the normal. In order to realize such a welfare-driven society, it is essential to build an infrastructure with a variety of facilities based on advanced technology or devices and systems...

In this paper we present a mixed-initiative planning approach to human-robot interaction in a rescue domain. We deploy a model-based executive monitoring system to coordinate the operator’s interventions and the concurrent activities of a rescue rover. We show that this approach can enhance both operator situation awareness and human-robot interaction for the execution and control of the divers...

A well-designed human-robot interface (HRI) is important for the success of search and rescue operations in urban environments. Controlling multiple robotic agents increases the complexity of the human operator’s control task since the human operator’s attention has to be divided between several robots. Without a good user interface, adding more robots to the system will not necessarily increas...

This year’s Robot Rescue event was held in conjunction with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and RoboCup at the colocated RoboCup and International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The year 2001 was the first year that the rescue event was part of RoboCup, and the second year that the event was held as part of the AAAI Robot Competition. The joint rules co...

In this paper the MRL rescue robot team and its robots are explained. We have designed and build four different robots for different situations. Our main goal of this activity is to achieve a practical rescue robot for real situation such as earthquake which is quite common in our country. We have organized all Robocup teams research works at the Mechatronics Research Laboratory.

A mobile robot deployed for remote inspection, surveying or rescue missions can fail due to various possibilities and can be hardware or software related. These failure scenarios necessitate manual recovery (self-rescue) of the robot from the environment. It would bring unforeseen challenges to recover the mobile robot if the environment where it was deployed had hazardous or harmful conditions...