euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots

Winfield, Alan F.T.; Franco, Marta Palau; Brueggemann, Bernd; Castro, Ayoze; Limon, Miguel Cordero; Ferri, Gabriele; Ferreira, Fausto; Liu, Xingkun; Petillot, Yvan; Roning, Juha; Schneider, Frank; Stengler, Erik; Sosa, Dario; Viguria, Antidio

Abstract

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Staged at Piombino, Italy in September 2015, euRathlon 2015 was the world’s first multi-domain (air, land and sea) multi-robot search and rescue competition. In a mock-disaster scenario inspired by the 2011 Fukushima NPP accident, the euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge required teams of robots to cooperate to map the area, find missing workers and stem a leak. In this paper we outline the euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge and the approach used to benchmark and score teams. We conclude the paper with an evaluation of both the competition and the performance of the robot-robot teams in the Grand Challenge.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jun 28, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 21, 2016
• Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
• Print ISSN: 0302-9743
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9716
• Pages: 351-363
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Book Title: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems
• ISBN: 9783319403786
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_36
• Keywords: field robotics, multi-robot systems, land robots, aerial robots, marine robots, benchmarking, competitions
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/911422
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_36
• Additional Information: Additional Information : The final publication is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_36
• Contract Date: Nov 21, 2016