JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN
Jacobs University is Vice World Champion at RoboCup 2007 |
In this years RoboCup world championship, which was carried out from June 30 to July 8, 2007, at Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, USA, the Jacobs Rescue Robot team came in second with 236 point, defeated only by a very small margin of 11 points by the team from Carnegie Mellon University in a heart-stop final of the Virtual Rescue League. Both teams scored very closely to each other throughout the whole competition and were always well ahead of the other competing teams. The Virtual Rescue League consists of virtual challenges for real and virtual robots and tests their intelligence and practical performance in various rescue scenarios.
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Eight research groups in total competed in this league where a high fidelity simulator is used to evaluate the performance of virtual search and rescue robots in various disaster scenarios developed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to train first responders. The virtual robots are very realistic simulations of their real world counterparts like the Jacobs Rescue Robots, which also participated in the real Robot Rescue League of the world championship. The team demonstrated a high amount of intelligence up to full autonomy onboard of the robots. A single operator supervised a team of four cooperating robots, which jointly explored the disaster scenario to search for victims.
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