AAAI/RoboCup-2001 Robot Rescue

The search and rescue efforts involving structural joint rules committee from RoboCup and collapse and other urban environments (Fire AAAI brought two communities together to 1993). The main task of USAR is to recover live develop the rules and scoring method. Robots involved with USAR must were four registered teams in the competition: identify victims and send back the locations to (1) Sharif University, (2) Swarthmore College, trained medical rescue personnel for removal (3) Utah State University, and (4) the University of the victims from the collapsed area. Additionally, several teams Robot Rescue League rules, designed by the exhibited their robots in the rescue arena, rules committee, keep the USAR task in focus including the University of South Florida and by addressing several issues that arise in real the University of Minnesota. This article discusses USAR situations, such as the time to transport the 2001 Robot Rescue event: the and set up the robot; the number of personnel course, the rules, the research approaches of required to run the robot; and, most importantly, the participants, and the final scores.