Title
Designing, developing, and deploying systems to support human-robot teams in disaster response
Author
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.
van Diggelen, J.
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.
Publication year
2014
Abstract
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.
Subject
Human Performances
PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Robotics
Disaster response
Human-robot team
Robot-assisted disaster response
User-centric design
Damage detection
Disasters
Emergency services
Human computer interaction
Intelligent buildings
Intelligent robots
Machine design
Robot programming
Robots
Collaborative planning
Collaborative robots
Disaster response
Human-robot-team
Situation awareness
Situational assessment
Structure damage assessment
User-centric designs
Human robot interaction
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2014.985335
TNO identifier
521618
Publisher
Robotics Society of Japan
ISSN
0169-1864
Source
Advanced Robotics, 28 (23), 1547-1570
Document type
article