Title
The RoboCup-Rescue Project: A Robotic Approach to the Disaster Mitigation Problem
Abstract
This paper introduces the RoboCup-Rescue Simulation Project, a contribution to the disaster mitigation, search and rescue problem. A comprehensive urban disaster simulator is constructed on distributed computers. Heterogeneous intelligent agents such as fire fighters, victims and volunteers conduct search and rescue activities in this virtual disaster world. A real world interface integrates various sensor systems and controllers of infrastructures in the real cities with the virtual world. Real-time simulation is synchronized with actual disasters, computing complex relationship between various damage factors and agent behaviors. A mission-critical man-machine interface provides portability and robustness of disaster mitigation centers, and augmented-reality interfaces for rescue parties in real disasters. It also provides a virtual reality training function for the public. This diverse spectrum of RoboCup-Rescue contributes to the creation of the safer social system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/ROBOT.2000.845369
ICRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
control systems,user interfaces,augmented reality,distributed computing,computer simulation,intelligent agent,social system,computational complexity,man machine interface,robots,spectrum,virtual reality,mobile robots,virtual worlds,multi agent systems,computational modeling,disasters
Intelligent agent,Virtual reality,Search and rescue,Computer security,SAFER,Multi-agent system,Software portability,Engineering,User interface,Real-time simulation
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
54
7.80
0
Authors
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Satoshi Tadokoro11014177.55
Hiroaki Kitano23515539.37
Tomoichi Takahashi330255.52
Itsuki Noda41360223.51
Hitoshi Matsubara5836140.16
Atsushi Shinjoh66310.46
Tetsuhiko Koto76910.34
Ikuo Takeuchi811221.29
Hironao Takahashi98915.09
Fumitoshi Matsuno10848143.77
Michinori Hatayama119815.99
Jun Nobe12568.22
Susumu Shimada13578.67