Deep reinforcement learning robot for search and rescue applications: Exploration in unknown cluttered environments

F Niroui, K Zhang, Z Kashino… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rescue robots can be used in urban search and rescue (USAR) applications to perform the
important task of exploring unknown cluttered environments. Due to the unpredictable …

Hector open source modules for autonomous map** and navigation with rescue robots

S Kohlbrecher, J Meyer, T Graber, K Petersen… - RoboCup 2013: Robot …, 2014 - Springer
Key abilities for robots deployed in urban search and rescue tasks include autonomous
exploration of disaster sites and recognition of victims and other objects of interest. In this …

Disaster robotics

RR Murphy, S Tadokoro, A Kleiner - Springer handbook of robotics, 2016 - Springer
Rescue robots have been used in at least 28 disasters in six countries since the first
deployment to the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse. All types of robots have been used …

Learned map prediction for enhanced mobile robot exploration

R Shrestha, FP Tian, W Feng, P Tan… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate an autonomous ground robot capable of exploring unknown indoor
environments for reconstructing their 2D maps. This problem has been traditionally tackled …

Exploration strategies based on multi-criteria decision making for searching environments in rescue operations

N Basilico, F Amigoni - Autonomous Robots, 2011 - Springer
Some applications require autonomous robots to search an initially unknown environment
for static targets, without any a priori information about environment structure and target …

Explore-bench: Data sets, metrics and evaluations for frontier-based and deep-reinforcement-learning-based autonomous exploration

Y Xu, J Yu, J Tang, J Qiu, J Wang… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration and map** of unknown terrains employing single or multiple
robots is an essential task in mobile robotics and has therefore been widely investigated …

Uncertainty-aware occupancy map prediction using generative networks for robot navigation

K Katyal, K Popek, C Paxton, P Burlina… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient exploration through unknown environments remains a challenging problem for
robotic systems. In these situations, the robot's ability to reason about its future motion is …

Autonomous exploration in a cluttered environment for a mobile robot with 2d-map segmentation and object detection

H Kim, H Kim, S Lee, H Lee - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frontier-based exploration is widely adopted for exploring an unknown region. The
conventional frontier-based exploration for a mobile robot may collide with three …

Robocup rescue robot and simulation leagues

HL Akin, N Ito, A Jacoff, A Kleiner, J Pellenz, A Visser - AI magazine, 2013 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract The RoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation competitions have been held since
2000. The experience gained during these competitions has increased the maturity level of …

An autonomous exploration algorithm using environment-robot interacted traversability analysis

Y Tang, J Cai, M Chen, X Yan… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Auto-exploration is a task for self-driving robots to explore unknown environments, which
becomes much complicated when they move on irregular outdoor terrains. To improve the …