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Controlling Robot/Agent/ Human teams
for Urban Search & Rescue
Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, and Illah Nourbakhsh
(July 2002-July 2007) Coordination of Heterogeneous
Teams (Humans, Agents, Robots) for Emergency
Response NSF-ITR-0205526 |
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ITR 0205526
Today, disaster relief is mainly performed by humans
(and trained dogs), communicating through face-to-face
interaction or via phones, walkie-talkies, etc.
Supporting information (e.g. infrastructure plans)
has to be retrieved manually, and whilst there
may be limited support from robots, they are typically
teleoperated by a separate team of humans. Technological
advances can be envisioned to enable combining
ad hoc coordination and interoperation of automated
systems with access to diverse and previously unknown
information sources, while addressing significant
physical challenges. We will be responsible for
developing and evaluating control strategies and
interfaces to allow human operators to effectively
coordinate, cooperate with, and control teams of
autonomous search and rescue robots. Researchers
will involve both virtual and physical test domains.
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