Rescue Simulation League

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League Overview

Screenshot from agent competition
Screenshot from virtual robot competition

The league consist of three competitions:

During rescue operations after a disaster, cooperation is a must<ref>Jennings et al. (1997) Cooperative search and rescue with a team of mobile robots. In Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pages 193–200</ref>. In general the problem is not solvable by a single agent, and a heterogeneous team that dynamically combines individual capabilities in order to solve the task is needed<ref>Murphy et al. (2000) Mixed-initiative control of multiple heterogeneous robots for usar. Technical Report CRASAR-TR2000-11, Center for Robot Assisted Search & Rescue, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL</ref>. This requirement is due to the structural diversity of disaster areas, variety of evidence the sensors can perceive and to the necessity of quickly and reliably examining large regions.

Yet, the performance of a joint rescue team depends on assembling the right mixture of capabilities and has to be designed as a whole. The goal of this league is to take this technological and scientific challenge and extend current rescue robot platforms with planning, learning, and information exchange capabilities needed to coordinate their efforts and to accomplish the rescue mission as a team.

Organization

Organization Committee (RoboCup 2013)


Technical Committee (RoboCup 2013)

Executive Committee (RoboCup 2013)

Former Committee members

  • Executive Committee
  • TC agent competition
    • Gopal Ramchurn (UK)
  • TC virtual robot competition
    • Andreas Kolling (USA)
  • Organization Committee
    • Eduardo Morales , Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico (Local Chair)
    • Veysel Gazi, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University (TR)

Rules

This is the list of rules of the both competitions:

RoboCup event Agent competition Virtual Robot competition
Eindhoven 2013 February, 2013 April 22, 2013
Mexico 2012 January 13, 2012
Istanbul 2011 January 12, 2011
Singapore 2010 February 8, 2010 June 15, 2010
Graz 2009 February 4, 2009 June 9, 2009
Suzhou 2008 June 9, 2008 June 4, 2008
Atlanta 2007 June 6, 2007 June 20, 2007
Bremen 2006 May 23, 2006 June, 2006
Osaka 2005 June 10, 2005
Lisbon 2004 January 20, 2004
Padua 2003 May 11, 2003

Teams

This is the alphabetic list of teams active in the League the last years, including links to their homepage and Team Description Papers:

Agent competition Infrastructure competition Virtual Robot competition
anct_resq (2011) BraveCircles (2010,2008) Amsterdam Oxford Joint Rescue Forces (2011,2010, 2009,2008)
BonabRescue (2011,2010,2008) Hinomiyagura (2011,2010,2009,2008) Brazil-VR (2008)
BraveCircles (2011,2008) Jacobs Robotics (2008) CSU YunLu (2008)
CSU_YunLu (2008) Kshitij (2010,2008 ) IUC (2009)
epicenter (2011) MRL (2012,2009) IUST - Kaveh (2012),2008)
HfutEngineRescue (2011) NewIdea (2008) Jacobs Robotics (2009,2008)
IAMRescue (2011,2010,2008) NIST Simmers (2010) MRL (2012, 2011,2010, 2009, 2008)
Impossibles (2008,2007) ResQ Freiburg (2009, 2006, 2005, 2004) NP.Solvers (2009)
IUST (2008) UvA Rescue (2012, 2011, 2010) Pasargad (2011)
Jacobs Robotics (2008) SUNTORI (2011) PoAReT (2012)
LTI Agent Rescue (2011) SBCeSaviour (2011) SBCe_Saviour (2011,2009)
Lotus (2009) SEU RedSun (2011,2010, 2009,2008)
MinERS (2009) STB (2009)
MRL (2012,2011,2010,2009,2008) Steel (2010,2008)
NAITO (2012,2011,2010,2009) UC Merced (2009,2008)
NewIdea (2009) UPM-SPQR (2009,2008)
FC Portugal (2012) UvA Rescue (2007, 2006)
Poseidon (2012,2011,2010,2009) Yildiz (2012,2011)
Ri-One (2012,2011,2010,2009,2008)
RMAS_ArtSapience (2012,2011)
RoboAKUT (2012,2011,2010,2009,2008)
SBCe Saviour (2011,2010,2009,2008)
SEU_Redsun (2011,2010,2009,2008)
S.O.S. (2012,2010,2009)
Suntori (2011,2010)
TsinghuAeolus (2008)
UvA Rescue (2003)
YowAI (2008)
ZJUBase (2012,2010,2009,2008)
5Rings (2004)

RoboCup 2013 Information

This is the local information for the upcoming RoboCup world championships:

More detailed information about the upcoming Agent and Virtual Robot competitions are available on these locations:

RoboCup 2012 Information

This is the local information for the previous RoboCup world championships in Mexico:

More detailed information about the upcoming Agent and Virtual Robot competitions are available on these locations:

RoboCup 2012 Scores

The official [1] of the competition in Mexico. Also check the detailed scores of the Agent competition and detailed scores of the Virtual Robot competition.

RoboCup 2011 Information

This is the local information for the previous RoboCup world championship in Istanbul:

More detailed information about the upcoming Agent and Virtual Robot competitions are available on the RoboCup Rescue wiki:

RoboCup 2011 Scores

The official results of the latest competition in Istanbul. Also check the detailed scores of the Agent competition and detailed scores of the Virtual Robot competition.

RoboCup Champions

Agent competition Infrastructure competition Virtual Robot competition
Year 1st Place Team 2nd Place Team 3rd Place Team Winner 1st Place Team 2nd Place Team 3rd Place Team Year
2001 YabAI, JP Arian, IR ISI-JAIST, JP
2002 Arian, IR YowAI, JP NITrescue, JP
2003 Arian, IR YowAI, JP S.O.S., IR
2004 ResQ Freiburg, DE DAMAS-Rescue, CA Caspian, IR ResQ Freiburg, DE
2005 Impossibles, IR Caspian, IR Kshitij, IN ResQ Freiburg, DE
2006 MRL, IR Poseidon, IR IUST, IR ResQ Freiburg, DE ResQ Freiburg, DE VirtualUB, DE UvArescue, NL 2006
2007 MRL, IR Impossibles, IR TsinghuaAeolus, CH AladdinRescue, UK Steel, USA Jacobs Rescue, DE SPQR Virtual, IT 2007
2008 ZJUBase, CH Suntori, JP Impossibles, IR Brave Circles, IR SEU-RedSun, CH UC Merced, USA Steel, USA 2008
2009 S.O.S., IR MRL, IR Poseidon, IR ResQ Freiburg, DE UC Merced, USA SEU-RedSun, CH Amsterdam-Oxford, NL/UK 2009
2010 RoboAKUT, TR IAMrescue, UK ZJUBase, CH Brave Circles, IR SEU-RedSun, CH MRL, IR 2010
2011 SEU-RedSun, CH Poseidon, IR RMAS_ArtSapience, EG SBCe_Saviour, IR Pasargad, IR SEU-RedSun, CH 2011
2012 Ri-one, JP ZJUBase, CH AUT S.O.S., IR UvA Rescue, NL PoAReT, IT Yildiz, TU 2012

Research State of the Art

The state-in-the-art in the agent competition is that decisions can be made for more than 100 agents in 500ms. The team of fire agents are able to predict the spread of the fire, to cooperate to extinguish the most dangerous fires firs and able to contain the fire front to prevent major damage to the city. The ambulance agents have a search strategy, listening for victims, dig them out and transport to a hospital. The police agents support both other teams by clearing the most important routes. The teams in the competition have shown a steady progress in controling larger teams under harsher conditions.

The state-of-the-art in the virtual robot competition is control system able to control a large team of robots with a single operator. To make this possible, the robots are able to create a map of the disaster and use this map to make automatic decisions for an optimal search strategy. Several teams have shown that they are able to detect victims by processing the images from the robot camera, based on features like color, shape and movement. Also other sources like sound are studied.


There are several resources on publications related to this league:

An recent overview of publications based on the Agent competition is given in this paper.

During the last RoboCup Symposium, three papers were presented which were presented by members of this league:

Other Information

Both competitions have a Frequent Asked Questions list:

Both competitions have a mailing list:

This page is moderated by Arnoud Visser. Contact him with suggestions.

References

  • H. Levent Akın, Nobuhiro Ito, Adam Jacoff, Alexander Kleiner, Johannes Pellenz and Arnoud Visser , "RoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation Leagues", AI Magazine, to be published, 2013.
  • Cameron Skinner and Sarvapali Ramchurn, "The RoboCup rescue simulation platform", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'10) - Volume 1, Pages 1647-1648, 2010.


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