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IROS
2007
IEEE
162views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Genetic MRF model optimization for real-time victim detection in search and rescue
— One primary goal in rescue robotics is to deploy a team of robots for coordinated victim search after a disaster. This requires robots to perform subtasks, such as victim detec...
Alexander Kleiner, Rainer Kümmerle
GECCO
2010
Springer
180views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Coevolution of heterogeneous multi-robot teams
Evolving multiple robots so that each robot acting independently can contribute to the maximization of a system level objective presents significant scientific challenges. For e...
Matt Knudson, Kagan Tumer
JFR
2007
163views more  JFR 2007»
13 years 4 months ago
Real-time localization and elevation mapping within urban search and rescue scenarios
Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) is a time critical task. Rescue teams have to explore a large terrain within a short amount of time in order to locate survivors after a disaster. O...
Alexander Kleiner, Christian Dornhege
SENSYS
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
CenWits: a sensor-based loosely coupled search and rescue system using witnesses
This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a search and rescue system called CenWits. CenWits uses several small, commonly-available RF-based sensors, and a...
Jyh-How Huang, Saqib Amjad, Shivakant Mishra
ISER
2004
Springer
173views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Synergies in Feature Localization by Air-Ground Robot Teams
Abstract. This paper describes the implementation of a decentralized architecture for autonomous teams of aerial and ground vehicles engaged in active perception. We provide a theo...
Ben Grocholsky, Selcuk Bayraktar, Vijay Kumar, Cam...