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Experience in System Design for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search & Rescue

Geert-Jan Kruijff; Miroslav Janicek; Shanker Keshavdas; Benoit Larochelle; Hendrik Zender; N.J.J.M. Smets; T. Mioch; M.A. Neerincx; J. van Diggelen; F. Colas; M. Liu; F. Pomerleau; R. Siegwart; V. Hlavac; T. Svoboda; T. Petrıcek; M. Reinstein; K. Zimmermann; F. Pirri; M. Gianni; P. Papadakis; A. Sinha; P. Balmer; N. Tomatis; R. Worst; T. Linder; H. Surmann; V. Tretyakov; S. Corrao; S. Pratzler-Wanczura; M. Sulk
In: Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics. International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR-2012), July 16-19, Japan, STAR, Spring Verlag, 2012.

Abstract

The paper describes experience with applying a user-centric design methodology in developing systems for human-robot teaming in Urban Search & Rescue. A human-robot team consists of several semi-autonomous robots (rovers/UGVs, mi- crocopter/UAVs), several humans at an off-site command post (mission comman- der, UGV operators) and one on-site human (UAV operator). This system has been developed in close cooperation with several rescue organizations, and has been deployed in a real-life tunnel accident use case. The human-robot team jointly explores an accident site, communicating using a multi-modal team interface, and spoken dialogue. The paper describes the development of this complex socio-technical system per se, as well as recent experience in evaluating the performance of this system.

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