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JFR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Evolution and field performance of a rescue robot
Robots are slowly finding their way into the hands of search and rescue groups. One of the robots contributing to this effort is the Inuktun VGTV-Xtreme series by American Standar...
Mark Micire
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Development of inspection robot for under floor of house
—We are developing robots for inspection of the under floor of houses. The developed robot system is reported in this paper. The mobile robot platform is based on a crawer type r...
Akihisa Ohya, Shin'ichi Yuta, Tomoaki Yoshida, Eij...
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
JFR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Evolving interface design for robot search tasks
This paper describes two steps in the evolution of human-robot interaction designs developed by the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL...
Holly A. Yanco, Brenden Keyes, Jill L. Drury, Curt...
GECCO
2008
Springer
138views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Modular neuroevolution for multilegged locomotion
Legged robots are useful in tasks such as search and rescue because they can effectively navigate on rugged terrain. However, it is difficult to design controllers for them that ...
Vinod K. Valsalam, Risto Miikkulainen