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The SIS/CMU Rescue Robot team placed third in the RoboCup
US Open held in New Orleans April 24-27. In rescue robot
competitions operators sequestered in a remote room search
for victims in a staged disaster environment using cameras
and sensors onboard their robots. Although falling well
behind the winning Korea Institute of Science and Technology
team that set new scoring records for the Orange search
and rescue arena, the SIS/CMU team ran neck and neck with
internationally 4th ranked International University of
Bremen team before succumbing 3.74 to 4.88 in the competition
finals. In earlier trials new MSIS graduate, Jeff Gennari,
found more victims than any team other than the Koreans.
Jeff was also the primary author of the user interface
that allowed SIS/CMU operators to seek and find victims
without expensive sensors such as laser rangefinders and
custom hardware used by other teams. SIS Ph.D. student,
Jumpol Polvichai, and graduate, Joe Manojlovich, helped
develop the software used on the robots. In related work,
SIS Ph.D. student, Jijun Wang, has written a high fidelity
simulation of the NIST search and rescue arenas that is
under consideration for adoption as a related competition
simulation. This work is being conducted under the direction
of SIS associate professor Mike Lewis and Katia Sycara
and Illab Nourbakhsh of Carnegie Mellon University.
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