What is it about?
In 1997 a grand challenge of Artificial Intelligence was solved (chess), so the RoboCup set a new challenge for the year 2050. The original code was to play soccer, but the community found at that it is even harder to save people after a disaster. So, the RoboCup rescue was initiated. This article describe the developments inside this competition for the first 16 years.
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Why is it important?
The robots and the techniques developed inside the competition were applied in the field on several occations. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is the best known example. No disaster is the same, but it takes year's for the robotic developments to mature, which shows the importance of such yearly competition with participants from all over the world.
Perspectives
Creating robust hardware that survives under the harsh circumstances after a disaster seems the most important, but the algorithms that provide the situation awareness are as important. Testing them in the field is essential, but creating software environments where all sort of circumstances can be created and allow experiments under controlled conditions help to the development of advanced robotic algorithms.
Dr. Arnoud Visser
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: 16 Years of RoboCup Rescue, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s13218-016-0444-x.
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