Designing, developing, and deploying systems to support human-robot teams in disaster response
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Kruijff, G.J.M.
Kruijff-Korbayová, I.
Keshavdas, S.
Larochelle, B.
Janíček, M.
Colas, F.
Liu, M.
Pomerleau, F.
Siegwart, R.
Neerincx, M.A.
Looije, R.
Smets, N.J.J.M.
Mioch, T.
Diggelen, J. van
Pirri, F.
Gianni, M.
Ferri, F.
Menna, M.
Worst, R.
Linder, T.
Tretyakov, V.
Surmann, H.
Svoboda, T.
Reinštein, M.
Zimmermann, K.
Petříček, T.
Hlaváč, V.
This paper describes our experience in designing, developing and deploying systems for supporting human-robot teams during disaster response. It is based on R&D performed in the EU-funded project NIFTi. NIFTi aimed at building intelligent, collaborative robots that could work together with humans in exploring a disaster site, to make a situational assessment. To achieve this aim, NIFTi addressed key scientific design aspects in building up situation awareness in a human-robot team, developing systems using a user-centric methodology involving end users throughout the entire R&D cycle, and regularly deploying implemented systems under real-life circumstances for experimentation and testing. This has yielded substantial scientific advances in the state-of-the-art in robot mapping, robot autonomy for operating in harsh terrain, collaborative planning, and human-robot interaction. NIFTi deployed its system in actual disaster response activities in Northern Italy, in July 2012, aiding in structure damage assessment.
Topics
Disaster responseHuman-robot teamRobot-assisted disaster responseUser-centric designDamage detectionDisastersEmergency servicesHuman computer interactionIntelligent buildingsIntelligent robotsMachine designRobot programmingRobotsCollaborative planningCollaborative robotsDisaster responseHuman-robot-teamSituation awarenessSituational assessmentStructure damage assessmentUser-centric designsHuman robot interaction
TNO Identifier
521618
ISSN
01691864
Source
Advanced Robotics, 28(23), pp. 1547-1570.
Publisher
Robotics Society of Japan
Pages
1547-1570
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