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Controlling Robot/Agent/ Human teams for
Urban Search & Rescue
NSF 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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