A simulator of catastrophe to improve the programming of autonomous robots of rescue
By engineering, Section Events Posted on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 02:19:48 PM PST
The last contest "Robocup Rescue" which was held this summer in Atlanta. It allows the simulation of standard catastrophes and to ensure the coordination of robots in the event of various emergencies. According to these last, it is possible to better parameterize and coordinate a programmed of implying rescue of multiple robotized agents (programming multi-agents), learning how in an autonomous way to evolve/move on ground disaster victim.
A simulator of catastrophe to improve the programming of
autonomous robots of rescue.
Nick Jennings and his team
(1) of School of Electronics & Computer
Science (ECS) of the university of Southampton (the United Kingdom) have
been just rewarded for the development from a simulator of catastrophes intended
to improve the programming of autonomous robots of rescue.
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The main driver of development for the Agents Simulation project is obviously
the Agents Competitions which are composed of the Infrastructure
Competition and the Rescue Agents
Competition. However, the community welcomes contributions to developing
more simulators or integrating existing simulators with the kernel. See the wiki for more details on the
simulators and agent strategies developed.
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Baptized "ECSKernel", this system is gaining it (in the
category "Infrastructure") of the last contest "Robocup Rescue" which was held
this summer in Atlanta. It allows the simulation of standard catastrophes and to
ensure the coordination of robots in the event of various emergencies. According
to these last, it is possible to better parameterize and coordinate a programmed
of implying rescue of multiple robotized agents (programming multi-agents),
learning how in an autonomous way to evolve/move on ground disaster victim.
This innovation was conceived as left the program "Autonomous Learning Agents
for Decentralized Data (ALADDIN)", research project launched five years ago with
the financial support of BAE Systems and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Developed under Linux, ECSKernel now will integrate the project of platform "Agent
Simulation" which aims to the installation of a framework of research for
the development of new robotized
engineering in recourse to the situations of
catastrophes. The new device will make it possible all the researchers concerned
to evaluate their innovations under conditions very close to reality, closest to
a standard urban environment.
Within this framework, one will be able to read again with interest our
distributed artificial Intelligence file and management of the crises " appeared
in 2001.
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