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RoboCup Rescue League: Qualified Teams and Awards 2006

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Urban Search and Rescue
Robot Competitions

2006 Events

 

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COUNTRY
TEAM
ORGANIZATION
LEADER
TDP
AWARDS
AUSTRALIA
CASualty
Centre For Autnomous Systems
jpaxman [at] eng.uts.edu.au (Jonathan Paxman )
TDP
Best in Class Autonomy (2)
CANADA
Walking Machine
Ecole De Technologie Superieure
walking [at] ens.etsmtl.ca (Simon Lessard )
TDP
 
GERMANY
Bremen Rescue Walkers
Universitat Bremen - AG Robotik
brikenv [at] informatik.uni-bremen.de (Veit Briken )
TDP
 
GERMANY
Deutschland1
Univ. of Osnabrueck, Univ. of Hannover, Fraunhofer AIS
hartmut.surmann [at] ais.fraunhofer.de (Hartmut Surmann)
TDP
 
GERMANY
IUB
International University Bremen
a.birk [at] iu-bremen.de (Andreas Birk )
TDP
Innovation
GERMANY
RescueRobots Freiburg
University of Freiburg
kleiner [at] informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Alexander Kleiner )
TDP
Best in Class Autonomy (1)
GERMANY
Resko Team
University of Koblenz-Landau
PELLENZ [at] UNI-KOBLENZ.DE (Johannes Pellenz )
TDP
 
IRAN
Ariana
Azad Univ. of Tehran (Central Branch) & Shahed Inst.
pedrram [at] yahoo.com (Pedram Johari )
TDP
 
IRAN
Aryaak
Azad University - Tehran
H_MOGHADDAM [at] GAWAB.COM (Hani Moghaddam)
TDP
 
IRAN
MRL (Naji)
Iran University of Science And Technology
shahri [at] iust.ac.ir (Ali Shahri )
TDP
Best in Class Locomotion (2)
IRAN
Resquake
K.N. Toosi University of Technology
ehsanmihankhah [at] yahoo.com (Ehsan Mihankhah )
TDP
Innovation
IRAN
RoboRazi
Razi University
 
TDP
3rd PLACE
ITALY
Alcor
Universita Di Roma "La Sapienza"
carbone [at] dis.uniroma1.it (Andrea Carbone)
TDP
 
JAPAN
C-Rescue
Chukyo University
shimizu [at] sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp (Masaru Shimizu)
TDP
 
JAPAN
NIIT-BLUE
Niigata Institute Of Technology
hsato [at] bora.mce.niit.ac.jp (Hitoshi Sato)
TDP
 
JAPAN
NuTech-R
Nagaoka University of Technology
ukaty [at] stn.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Youhei Ukai )
TDP
 
JAPAN
Toin Pelican
Toin University of Yokohama
koyanagi [at] cc.toin.ac.jp (Eiji Koyanagi)
TDP
2nd PLACE
JAPAN
Shinobi
University of Electro-Communications
nsato [at] hi.mce.uec.ac.jp (Noritaka Sato )
TDP
Best in Class Locomotion (1)
KOREA
Roscue
Korea Institute of Science And Technology
robot [at] kist.re.kr (Woo Sub Lee)
TDP
Best in Class Locomotion (3)
SWEDEN
RFC Uppsala
Uppsala University
jakob.carlstrom [at] it.uu.se (Jakob Carlstrom )
TDP
Best in Class Autonomy (3)
THAILAND
Independent
King Mongkut's Inst. of Tech. North Bangkok
pinit_note [at] yahoo.com (Pinit Khueansuwong )
TDP
1st PLACE
USA
Good Samaritan
Colorado State University
KRISM13 [at] ENGR.COLOSTATE.EDU (Kris Magowan)
TDP
Innovation
USA
RKRS
Benilde - St. Margarets School
tjump [at] bsm-online.org (Timothy Jump)
TDP


Qualification Process for the World Championship Competition:

All RoboCupRescue Robot League teams should use nearby regional open competitions to:
1. practice your deployment strategies,
2. familiarize yourselves with the arenas and rules, and
3. demonstrate your capabilities to the Technical Committee.

Teams that demonstrate competent and reliable systems at the regional open competition, along with a descriptive TDP, will always be favored for inclusion in the World Championships.

For example. this year's RoboCupRescue Robot League regional open competitions include:
- Japan Open
- US Open
- Iran Open
- Dutch Open

... and we are actively trying (but need help from locals) to establish regional open competitions in other areas too.

Unfortunately, due to the close scheduling of the regional opens and the World Championship each year, the qualification process can't be completely sequential. So the Technical Committee qualifies an initial set of teams for the World Championship based on your team's submitted TDP, and experience in previous regional opens. The Technical Committee usually keeps a few slots open to include a final few capable teams which emerge from the regional open competitions in the current year as well. When there is no regional open competition in the region of the World Championship, the technical committee typically qualifies proportionally more teams from the local region, while encouraging them to try to participate in other regional open competitions as well. So the best route to participate in a World Championship is through a regional open competition, and we encourage all new teams to start there.

You'll find the lessons are well worth it.

Generally each year the Technical Committee looks at the following criteria to qualify teams for the World Championship:

1. Your TDP describes improvements to your robot based on lessons learned from successfully competing in a semi-final round in a previous World Championship, or

2. Your TDP describes improvements to your robot based on lessons learned from winning a previous regional open or best-in-class competition, or

3. Your TDP describes a particularly interesting or innovative approach that the Technical Committee considers likely to perform well at the competition even without previous experience at a regional open. This is especially possible if you can demonstrate your capabilities convincingly within representative environments through:

a) video of the robot performing any or all of the requisite capabilities:

  • advanced mobility (traversing random stepfields or confined space cubes)
  • navigation (wall following, centering between obstacles or constrictions)
  • localization and mapping (2D/3D maps, SLAM on non-flat-flooring i.e. pitch/roll ramps, low-profile stepfields)
  • directed perception (visual acuity for near/far/dark/light, sensor probing into voids, sometimes with reaching)
  • victim identification (fusion of the various sensory signals to improve confidence and reduce errors)
  • autonomy (assistive features, bounded intervals, or fully autonomous performance of any or all of the above)
  • effective operator interfaces

  • b) performing any or all of the above in an upcoming regional open competitionSome of the qualifications may be granted by the Technical Committee to include particular countries, technologies that the league should be investigating, or to support other league outreach efforts.

    Created July 7, 2014, Updated January 6, 2017