Search and Rescue Robotics [Working Title]

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Rescue Robotics

The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge: The First Outdoor Multi-domain Search and Rescue Robotics Competition—A Marine Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Ferri ◽  
Fausto Ferreira ◽  
Vladimir Djapic ◽  
Yvan Petillot ◽  
Marta Palau Franco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Fukushima Accident ◽  
Marine Robotics ◽  
Rescue Robotics ◽  
The World ◽  
Intervention Team ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe euRathlon project was an FP7-funded Coordination and Support Action (2013‐2015). Its main aim was to organize outdoor robotics competitions in realistic search and rescue response scenarios for cooperative land, sea, and air robots. Participant teams were requested to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. In the project's third year euRathlon culminated with the organization of the first outdoor multi-domain search and rescue robotics competition in the world: the euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge. Sea, air, and land robots were asked to cooperate acting as a robotic intervention team in a scenario simulating an industrial area ravaged by a tsunami. The Grand Challenge was held in Piombino, Italy, in the surroundings of the Tor del Sale power plant, from September 17 to 25. To prepare the teams for the Grand Challenge, two competitions, dedicated to land and marine robots, respectively, took place in 2013 and 2014. In all the competitions, a strong effort was made in benchmarking what led to meaningful and reasonable scoring principles. Workshops and educational activities complemented the competitions. In this paper, we will focus on the marine robotics competitions of euRathlon with a particular focus on the Grand Challenge. Both technical achievements and general results are presented. The results in terms of team participation and the fruitful effort in dissemination led to establish euRathlon Grand Challenge as the de facto leading search and rescue outdoor robotics competition in Europe.

Advancing the State of Urban Search and Rescue Robotics Through the RoboCupRescue Robot League Competition

2013 ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Sheh ◽  
Adam Jacoff ◽  
Ann-Marie Virts ◽  
Tetsuya Kimura ◽  
Johannes Pellenz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Urban Search And Rescue ◽  
Rescue Robotics

scholarly journals Editorial: Security, Search and Rescue Robotics

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Voyles ◽  
Julie A. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Rescue Robotics

Scalybot: A Snake-Inspired Robot With Active Control of Friction

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Marvi ◽  
Gregory Meyers ◽  
Geoffrey Russell ◽  
David L. Hu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Frictional Drag ◽  
Temporal Dependence ◽  
Anatomical Features ◽  
Active Control Of Friction ◽  
Rescue Robotics ◽  
Inclined Surfaces ◽  
Climbing Ability ◽  
Corn Snake

Snakes are one of the world’s most versatile locomotors, at ease slithering through rubble or ratcheting up vertical tree trunks. Their adaptations for movement across complex dry terrain thus serve naturally as inspirations for search-and-rescue robotics. In this combined experimental and theoretical study, we perform experiments on inclined surfaces to show a snake’s scales are critical anatomical features that enable climbing. We find corn snakes actively change their scale angle of attack by contracting their ventral muscles and lifting their bodies. We use this novel paradigm to design Scalybot, a two-link limbless robot with individually controlled sets of belly scales. The robot ascends styrofoam plates inclined up to 45°, demonstrating a climbing ability comparable to that of a corn snake in the same conditions. The robot uses individual servos to provide a spatial and temporal dependence of its belly friction, effectively anchoring the stationary part of its body while reducing frictional drag of its sliding section. The ability to actively modulate friction increases both the robot’s efficiency over horizontal surfaces and the limiting angles of inclination it can ascend.

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