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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Towards Highly Reliable Autonomy for Urban Search and Rescue Robots

Authors : Stefan Kohlbrecher, Florian Kunz, Dorothea Koert, Christian Rose, Paul Manns, Kevin Daun, Johannes Schubert, Alexander Stumpf, Oskar von Stryk

Published in: RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Participating in the RoboCup Rescue Real Robot League competition for approximately 5 years, the members of Team Hector Darmstadt have always focused on robot autonomy for Urban Search and Rescue (USAR). In 2014, the team won the RoboCup RRL competition. This marked the first time a team with a strong focus on autonomy won the championship. This paper describes both the underlying research and open source developoments that made this success possible as well as ongoing work focussed on increasing rescue robot performance.

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Metadata
Title
Towards Highly Reliable Autonomy for Urban Search and Rescue Robots
Authors
Stefan Kohlbrecher
Florian Kunz
Dorothea Koert
Christian Rose
Paul Manns
Kevin Daun
Johannes Schubert
Alexander Stumpf
Oskar von Stryk
Copyright Year
2015
Book
RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-18614-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-18615-3

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18615-3_10

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