Collaborative multi-robot search and rescue: Planning, coordination, perception, and active vision

JP Queralta, J Taipalmaa, BC Pullinen, VK Sarker… - Ieee …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search and rescue (SAR) operations can take significant advantage from supporting
autonomous or teleoperated robots and multi-robot systems. These can aid in map** and …

Robotics in crisis management: A review

G Wilk-Jakubowski, R Harabin, S Ivanov - Technology in Society, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This paper provides a review of research on robotics in crises, disasters, and crisis
management, and identifies research gaps and directions for future research. The paper …

How and when can robots be team members? Three decades of research on human–robot teams

FD Wolf, RM Stock-Homburg - Group & Organization …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Artificial intelligence and robotic technologies have grown in sophistication and reach.
Accordingly, research into mixed human–robot teams that comprise both robots and humans …

Stay on the path: Instruction fidelity in vision-and-language navigation

V Jain, G Magalhaes, A Ku, A Vaswani, E Ie… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019‏ - arxiv.org
Advances in learning and representations have reinvigorated work that connects language
to other modalities. A particularly exciting direction is Vision-and-Language Navigation …

Search and rescue rotary‐wing uav and its application to the lushan ms 7.0 earthquake

J Qi, D Song, H Shang, N Wang, C Hua… - Journal of Field …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Rapid search and rescue responses after earthquakes or in postseismic evaluation tend to
be extremely difficult. To solve this problem, we summarized the requirements of search and …

Multi-uav coverage path planning based on hexagonal grid decomposition in maritime search and rescue

SW Cho, JH Park, HJ Park, S Kim - Mathematics, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
In the event of a maritime accident, surveying the maximum area efficiently in the least
amount of time is crucial for rescuing survivors. Increasingly, unmanned aerial vehicles …

Development of a separable search-and-rescue robot composed of a mobile robot and a snake robot

T Kamegawa, T Akiyama, S Sakai, K Fujii… - Advanced …, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this study, we propose a new robot system consisting of a mobile robot and a snake robot.
The system works not only as a mobile manipulator but also as a multi-agent system by …

A review of collaborative air-ground robots research

C Liu, J Zhao, N Sun - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022‏ - Springer
The collaboration of heterogeneous robots is a hot topic in multi-intelligent agents,
characterized by wide-area coverage and high environmental adaptability. Compared with a …

Robot-assisted nuclear disaster response: Report and insights from a field exercise

M Chiou, GT Epsimos, G Nikolaou… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports on insights by robotics researchers that participated in a 5-day robot-
assisted nuclear disaster response field exercise conducted by Kerntechnische Hilfdienst …

Collaborative multi-robot systems for search and rescue: Coordination and perception

JP Queralta, J Taipalmaa, BC Pullinen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
Autonomous or teleoperated robots have been playing increasingly important roles in civil
applications in recent years. Across the different civil domains where robots can support …