Search & Rescue Robots

Organizations [top]

General Disaster Information Network, US - international organization with an interest in sharing disaster information
The National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue, US - Dedicated to improving disaster readiness and response through public awareness, collaboration, research and engineering.
International Rescue System Institute, JP. - The industry-government-academia-civilian research organization to advance and diffuse high-technologies coping with disaster.
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California Institute of Technology, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US - HAZBOT III and Urbie (last update 04-2001).
California Institute of Technology, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US - Rover (last update 01-2004).
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Robotics Institute, US - Autonomous helicopter project (last update 01-2001).
Carnegie Mellon Univ.,Robotics Institute, Biorobotics Lab, US - Search and rescue robots (last update 02-2004).
Sharif Rescue Robot Project. - Robots for participating "Robot Rescue" and "RoboCup Rescue" (last update ??).
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, US - Several search and rescue robots (last update 04-2004).
Swarthmore College, Department of Engineering, US - Search and rescue robot MARIO (last update ??).
Univ. of Lisabon, Instituto de Sistemas e Rob�tica, Instituto Superior T�cnico, Portugal - Cooperative Navigation for Rescue Robots (last update 01-2004).
Univ. of South Florida, Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR), US - The Center responded with its diverse cache of robots within 6 hours to the WTC disaster (last update 03-2004).
Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Canada - Fully autonomous flying robots (last update 04-2004)
NASA - Dante II, an eight-legged robot (last update 2004)
Carnegie Mellon University Field Robotics Center - Project Pioneer (last update 2004)
Fraunhofer Institute Autonomous Intelligent Systems - Kurt3D rescue edition (last update 06-2004)
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IEEE Int. Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics SSRR 2004. May 2004, Bonn, Germany. organized by Fraunhofer Institutes AIS and IPA
Earth and Space 2004. March 2004, Houston, US. American Society of Civil Engineers. - Conference on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments.
AAAI 2004 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. July 2004, San Jose, US. American Association for Artificial Intelligence - Robot Rescue Competition and Robot Exhibition
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Calling All Angels - NIUSR-West Conference. October 2004, Albuquerque, US. National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue. - Homeland Security: Law Enforcement, Fire, Medical and Research Technology for READINESS and RESPONSE.

Satoshi Tadokoro (Kobe University & International Rescue System Institute (IRS) Kobe) Problem domain of Japan national project (DDT Project) on rescue robotics. IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics
D. Diaz, T. Flowers, and R.R. Murphy: Intelligent Exploration Strategy for the Find Life on Mars Competition. Proc. Third Conf. Robotics for Challenging Environments, Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers, Reston, pp. 237243, 1998.
Blank, D., Beavers, G., Arensman, W., Caloianu, C., Fujiwara, T., McCaul, S., Shaw, C.: A Robot Team that Can Search, Rescue, and Serve Cookies: Experiments in Multi-modal Person Identification and Multi-robot Sound Localization. In: Proceedings of the 2001 Twelfth Annual Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Society Meetings, 2001
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Robot Rescue. AAAI 2004 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. July 2004, San Jose, US. American Association for Artificial Intelligence - Robots must enter a fallen structure, find human victims, and direct human rescuers to the victims. This event uses the joint AAAI/RoboCup Robot Rescue rules.
RoboCup Rescue 2004. July 2004, Lisbon, Portugal. The RoboCup Federation. - A new research domain of RoboCup which targets search and rescue in large scale disasters. So far there are two projects in RoboCup Rescue, the Rescue Simulation League and the Rescue Robot League.
Rescue Robot Contest. August 2004, KOBE, Japan. - This contest is aiming to simulate the life-saving operations conducted at disastrous sites.
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