RoboCup Rescue
Disaster rescue is one of the most serious social issues which involves very large
numbers of heterogeneous agents in an hostile environment. The main goal of the
RoboCupRescue project is to promote research and development in this socially significant
domain at various levels involving multi-agent team work coordination, physical robotic
agents for search and rescue, information infrastructures, personal digital assistants,
a standard simulator and decision support systems, evaluation benchmarks for rescue strategies
and robotic systems that are all integrated into a comprehensive systems in future.
RoboCup
RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field.
It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard
problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose
to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied
for socially significant problems and industries.
In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated including: design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics, and sensor-fusion. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment. RoboCup also offers a software platform for research on the software aspects of RoboCup. One of the major application of RoboCup technologies is a search and rescue in large scale disaster. RoboCup initiated RoboCupRescue project to specifically promote research in socially significant issues.
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