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

研究将在奥格斯堡学院与明尼苏达大学和南佛罗里达大学共同设立的安全、安保和救援研究行业/大学合作研究中心的协调下进行。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在“被摧毁的建筑物”中工作的搜索和救援机器人团队有关的未决问题。无论破坏是由地震或恐怖袭击等自然现象造成的，类似的环境都会导致类似的环境，结构特性，如平墙和地板以倾斜的角度放置，通常没有障碍物的地方，以及门口被赋予了新的定义，即任何足够大的东西都可以挤进去。其目标是以一种多种行为相互增强而不是相互减损的方式来开发机器人通信。

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.