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Mission Statement

Building software for autonomous robots is a challenging, multi-disciplinary and time consuming task. Researchers often sub-optimally solve all topics and reinvent the wheel instead to provide great solutions in their central research area. In order to overcome this problem we propose a common software development based on ROS with the following goals:

Available Software

SLAM

Simulation

Optris Thermal Imager

QR code and victim detection

Manipulation

Tutorials for the hector_stack

  1. Installation of robocup_rescue software

    This tutorial shows how to install software related to this initiative

  2. Simple Exploration of Unknown Environments in Simulation

    This tutorial shows you how to start a simulation scenario with a robot exploring a maze scenario using the Gazebo simulator

Users

Roadmap

Software under development

Ideas looking for developers

Events

In order to push this idea forward several workshops and summer schools took place. The different events serve as synchronization points, where new requirements are discussed and prototypes are developed. Future events are already planned. Stay tuned!

Links/Literature

[1] Stefan Kohlbrecher, Karen Petersen, Gerald Steinbauer, Johannes Maurer, Peter Lepej, Suzana Uran, Rodrigo Ventura, Christian Dornhege, Andreas Hertle, Raymond Sheh, Johannes Pellenz, "Community-Driven Development of Standard Software Modules for Search and Rescue Robots", Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), November 2012.

[2] S. Kohlbrecher, J. Meyer, O. von Stryk, and U. Klingauf. A flexible and scalable slam system with full 3d motion estimation. In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), November 2011.

[3] Stephan Wirth and Johannes Pellenz. Exploration transform: A stable exploring algorithm for robots in rescue environments. Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2007.

[4] Stefan Kohlbrecher and Johannes Meyer and Thorsten Graber and Karen Petersen and Oskar von Stryk and Uwe Klingauf. Hector open source modules for autonomous mapping and navigation with rescue robots. Proceedings RoboCup Symposium 2013


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