This paper describes our experience in designing, developing and deploying systems for supporting human-robot teams during disaster response. It is based on R&D performed in the EU-funded project NIFTi. NIFTi aimed at building intelligent, collaborative robots that could work together with humans in exploring a disaster site, to make a situational assessment. To achieve this aim, NIFTi addressed key scientic design aspects in building up situation awareness in a human-robot team, developing systems using a user-centric methodology involving end users throughout the entire R&D cycle, and regularly deploying implemented systems under real-life circumstances for experimentation and testing. This has yielded substantial scientic advances in the state-of-the-art in robot mapping, robot autonomy for operating in harsh terrain, collaborative planning, and human-robot interaction. NIFTi deployed its system in actual disaster response activities in Northern Italy, in July 2012, aiding in structure damage assessment.
Designing, developing, and deploying systems to support human-robot teams in disaster response. Advanced Robotics / G. J. M., Kruijff; I., Kruijff Korbayova; S., Keshavdas; B., Larochelle; M., Janicek; F., Colas; M., Liu; F., Pomerleau; R., Siegwart; M. A., Neerincx; R., Looije; N. J. J. M., Smets; T., Mioch; J., van Diggelen; PIRRI ARDIZZONE, Maria Fiora; Gianni, Mario; Ferri, Federico; Menna, Matteo; R., Worst; T., Linder; V., Tretyakov; H., Surmann; T., Svoboda; M., Reinstein; K., Zimmermann; T., Petricek; V., Hlavac. - In: ADVANCED ROBOTICS. - ISSN 0169-1864. - STAMPA. - 28:23(2014), pp. 1547-1570. [10.1080/01691864.2014.985335]
Designing, developing, and deploying systems to support human-robot teams in disaster response. Advanced Robotics
PIRRI ARDIZZONE, Maria Fiora;GIANNI, Mario;FERRI, FEDERICO;MENNA, MATTEO;
2014
Abstract
This paper describes our experience in designing, developing and deploying systems for supporting human-robot teams during disaster response. It is based on R&D performed in the EU-funded project NIFTi. NIFTi aimed at building intelligent, collaborative robots that could work together with humans in exploring a disaster site, to make a situational assessment. To achieve this aim, NIFTi addressed key scientic design aspects in building up situation awareness in a human-robot team, developing systems using a user-centric methodology involving end users throughout the entire R&D cycle, and regularly deploying implemented systems under real-life circumstances for experimentation and testing. This has yielded substantial scientic advances in the state-of-the-art in robot mapping, robot autonomy for operating in harsh terrain, collaborative planning, and human-robot interaction. NIFTi deployed its system in actual disaster response activities in Northern Italy, in July 2012, aiding in structure damage assessment.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
