The term 'stroke unit care' has been used to cover care in hospital that is provided by a multidisciplinary team. This might mean a designated ward or a team that will visit stroke patients on any ward. Mobile teams can function more flexibly and they can serve to educate a wider group of staff. However, their potential impact is unclear.

This paper describes the human-machine systems engineering process used to develop a prototype mobile communication and information system to facilitate preparation for emergency Caesarean sections in a rural hospital. The development team of engineering students, faculty, physicians, and nurses conducted a hierarchical process analysis to survey the problem scope and to develop functional requ...

This paper describes the joint approach of three research groups to enable a heterogeneous team of robots to exchange belief. The communication framework presented imposes little restrictions on the design and implementation of the individual autonomous mobile systems. The three groups have individually taken part in the RoboCup F2000 league since 1998. Although recent rule changes allow for mo...

When designing a mobile robotic team, an engineer is faced with many design choices. This paper discusses the design of a team consisting of two different models of robots with significantly different sensing and control capabilities intended to accomplish a similar task. Two new robotic platforms, the COTS Scout and the MegaScout are described along with their respective design considerations.

Wireless technologies can support the activities of mobile response teams (MRT) such as firefighters and combat personnel. MRT encounter dynamic, fast-paced, and informationintensive situations that require precise communication and coordination of actions between team members. This paper discusses the information needs of several types of MRT, and presents cue design guidelines to keep team me...

The USF team in the 2000 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition had the most extensive experience with the NIST Standard Test Bed for USAR. Based on those experiences, the team reports on the utility of the test bed, and makes over 20 specific recommendations on both scoring competitions and on future improvements to the test

Autonomous mobile robots are ever increasing their number of different applications, even in ludic applications or in sports. In the last few years, several robotic football competitions have been organized with participating teams from all over the world. This paper describes a team of Autonomous Mobile Robots which play football, developed by the Group of Automation and Robotics at the Indust...

Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) allows users to exchange multimedia information, such as texts, images, and videos with family and friends. MIM applications are typically free-ofcharge and intended for casual, playful communications, allowing users to engage in one-onone or group interactions. Based on Wegner's Transactive Memory Systems (TMS), the study focuses on how MIM can be used to enhance...

ORESTE is an associated team between OPALE project-team at INRIA and the Mobile Millennium / Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) team at UC Berkeley focused on traffic management. With this project, we aim at processing GPS traffic data with up-to-date mathematical techniques to optimize traffic flows in corridors. More precisely, we seek for optimal reroute strategies to reduce freeway conges...

In this paper we are concerned with the reliability, i.e., probability of success, of reactive system components (behaviors) in autonomous systems such as mobile robots. A method is presented for designing reliable behaviors by a suitable integration of a set of less reliable ones, which can be based on diierent and complementary algorithms , sensors etc. The presented approach is based on the ...