The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets: A Marsupial Team for Urban Search and Rescue
Miscellaneous, 11th Annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition, pp. 44 - 49, August, 2002
Abstract
We describe our entry in the AAAI 2002 Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) competition, a marsupial team consisting of a larger wheeled robot and several small legged robots, carried around by the larger robot. This setup exploits complimentary strengths of each robot type in a challenging domain. We describe both the hardware and software architecture, and the on-board real-time mapping which forms the basis of accurate victim-localization crucial to the USAR domain. We also evaluate what challenges remain to be resolved in order to deploy search and rescue robots in realistic scenarios.
BibTeX
@misc{Dellaert-2002-16865,author = {Frank Dellaert and Tucker Balch and Michael Kaess and Ramprasad Ravichandran and Fernando Alegre and Marc Berhault and Robert McGuire and Ernest Merrill and Lilia Moshkina and Daniel Walker},
title = {The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets: A Marsupial Team for Urban Search and Rescue},
booktitle = {11th Annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition},
month = {August},
year = {2002},
pages = {44 - 49},
}
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