Developing Search/Rescue Robot Team Behaviors - Undergraduate Institutional Participation in SSR-RC

研究将在奥格斯堡学院与由明尼苏达大学和南佛罗里达大学联合建立的工业/大学安全、安保和救援研究合作研究中心协调下进行。该中心专注于国土安全和应急响应方面的前沿研究。该项目解决了一些与搜索和救援机器人团队在“被毁建筑”中工作有关的开放性问题。无论破坏是由于地震或恐怖袭击等自然现象造成的，结果都是类似的环境，其结构特性如倾斜的平墙和地板，通常没有障碍物的地方，以及门的新定义是任何足够大的东西都可以挤过去。目标是利用机器人的通信方式，使多个行为相互增强而不是相互减损。

Research will be done at Augsburg College in coordination with the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Safety, Security and Rescue Research jointly established by the University of Minnesota and the University of South Florida. The center is focusing on leading-edge research in homeland security and emergency response. The project addresses a number of open issues pertaining to search and rescue robot teams working in "destroyed structures". Whether destruction is due to a natural phenomenon such as an earthquake or a terrorist attack, a similar environment results, with structural properties such as flat walls and floors positioned at skewed angles, obstacles where there are usually are none, and doorways taking on a new definition as anything large enough to squeeze through. The goal is to exploit robot communication in such a way that multiple behaviors augment rather than detract from each other.