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The RoboCup-Rescue Project: A Robotic Approach to the Disaster Mitigation Problem. Satoshi Tadokoro Hiroaki Kitano Kobe Univ. Sony CS Lab. The RoboCup-Rescue Committee The RoboCup Federation. 2000 IEEE Intl. Conf. On Robotics & Automation, San Francisco, April 27, 2000.
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The RoboCup-Rescue Project:A Robotic Approach to the Disaster Mitigation Problem Satoshi Tadokoro Hiroaki Kitano Kobe Univ. Sony CS Lab. The RoboCup-Rescue CommitteeThe RoboCup Federation 2000 IEEE Intl. Conf. On Robotics & Automation, San Francisco, April 27, 2000
Earthquake Disaster • > 3 times/year Top 10 earthquakes in the 20th century
Expected Contribution ofRobotics • Industrial Robot Contribution • Save workers from 3D jobs • Demanding, Dirty, Dangerous • Cost Reduction • Efficiency Improvement • Quality Improvement • Rescue Robot Contribution • …... (Kawasaki Heavy Industry Co.)
RoboCup (Robot Soccer WorldCup) • Grand Challenge:“Autonomous humanoid team wins WorldCup championship until 2050.” • 35 countries3,000 researchers • Technology transfer for • Socially important problems • Future industries • Human welfare
Dream of Robotics and AI If mighty robot heroes in SF and comics ….. (Mighty Atom, Osamu Tezuka) (Gundam)
RoboCup-Rescue Objectives • From Simulation to Real Robots • Real-Time Decision Support by Simulation • Rescue Robots Development • Digitally Empowered Rescue Agents • Social Infrastructure for Safety A Grand Challenge of Robotics and AI
Real-World Interface • Integration of Sensors and Machines Distributed in the city • Automated data collection of disaster • Integration of Social Infrastructures • Control and supervise disaster prevention activities
Human Interface • Integration of Human and Virtual World • Digitally Empowered Rescue Agents • Wearable computer • Information augmentation • Advanced Emergency Response Center • Efficient decision making • Ubiquitous ER center function
Behavior Planning Challenge • Complex Constraints • Incomplete information • Real-time decision • Numerous heterogeneous agents • Effect of logistics • Complex objectives • Life saving • Prevention of secondary disaster • Data collection • Long-tem / short-term Intelligence for Real-World Planning
Simulator Advantages • Effect of agent activities Action Strategy • Mutual effect of primary/secondary disasters Accuracy • Distributed computation & open architecture Cost Effectiveness Rapid Development
Social Contributions • Real-time disaster mitigation advancement • Worldwide standardization of emergency decision support in disasters • Control of infrastructure systems for disaster mitigation • Civilians’ optimal behavior in disasters • Training of emergency response
Simulation Project Robotics &InfrastructureProject Integration Advanced Search & Rescue Operation Perspective Disaster Prevention Science Crisis Management Information Science Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Politics Civil Engineering Architecture
RoboCup-Rescue Roadmap ~2000.6 Open Prototype Simulator in Public and Call for Participants (Hakodate Japan Open, ICMAS Boston, Melbourne RoboCup WC, etc.) ~2001.8 1st Research Evaluation Conference ~2005.4 Full-Scale Simulation ~2020 Contribution in Real Disaster Fields ~2050 Mighty Rescue Robots in Practice Contemporary ‘Thunderbird’ for S&R
Conclusions • A New RoboCup Challenge • Disaster mitigation, emergency response and search & rescue problem • New grand challenge of AI and robotics • Creation of social safety and peace • Call for Participants • After July, Visit http://www.robocup.org • Alpha Testing Request: r-resc@isi.edu
RoboCup-Rescue Simulator Image RoboCup-Rescue Image by H. Takahashi (Port & Harbour Research Institute)
RoboCup-Rescue Simulator Prototype • Call for Participants • After July, Visit http://www.robocup.org • Alpha Testing Request tor-resc@isi.edu