CHOPIN - Cooperation between Human and rObotic teams in catastroPhic INcidents
Project name: CHOPIN - Cooperation between Human and rObotic teams in catastroPhic INcidents
Description: MRS may be very useful on assisting humans in many distributed activities, especially in hazardous scenarios, by extending human perception and actuation with distributed sensors and actuators. The CHOPIN R&D project aims at exploiting this human-robot symbiosis in the development of human rescuers’ support systems for small-scale search and rescue missions in urban catastrophic incidents, an application domain with an unquestionable beneficial impact on society. A proof of concept will be developed for innovative techniques about cooperation between teams of human agents and teams of mobile robotic agents and collaborative context awareness in search and rescue scenarios.
PI: Rui P. Rocha
Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/119000/2010
Website: chopin.isr.uc.pt
Fundind entity: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Budget: 94,840 €
Partners: Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra (ISR-UC); Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC); Portuguese Civil Defense Authority (ANPC)
Duration of the action: 2012-04-01 - 2015-03-31