Abstract
The RoboCup Rescue competitions have been initiated in 2000. To celebrate 16 years of research and development in this socially relevant initiative this article gives an overview of the experience gained during these competitions. This article provides an overview the state-of-the-art and the lessons learned from the RoboCup Rescue competitions.
Highlights
The urban search and rescue (USAR) scenario offers a great potential to inspire and drive research in multi-agent and multi-robot systems
The RoboCup Rescue Robot League (RRL) is a community of teams that make use of competitions, rescue camps and summer schools to advance the state of response robotics
Through the rescue competition the league is encouraging teams to work on robotic systems for USAR scenarios and providing opportunities to compare their solutions with other teams and get feedback from other experts and end-users
Summary
The urban search and rescue (USAR) scenario offers a great potential to inspire and drive research in multi-agent and multi-robot systems. In this article we like to introduce the RoboCup Rescue leagues, which are respectively the Rescue Robot League (RRL) and the Rescue Simulation League (RSL) [1, 2]. The associated Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) scenarios have great potential for inspiring and driving research in both multi-agent and multi-robot systems. Since the circumstances during real USAR missions are extraordinarily challenging [3], benchmarks based on them, such as the RoboCup Rescue competitions, are ideal for assessing the capabilities of intelligent robots. In the remainder of this paper first the developments in the Rescue Robot League 2) are highlighted, followed by the development in the Rescue Simulation League In the remainder of this paper first the developments in the Rescue Robot League (Sect. 2) are highlighted, followed by the development in the Rescue Simulation League (Sect. 3)
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