Background

The general objective of the International Advanced Robotics Programme (IARP) is to encourage development of advanced robotic systems that can dispense with human work for difficult activities in harsh, demanding or dangerous environments, and to contribute to the revitalization and growth of the world economy.

Through this fourth workshop, the IARP working group RISE (Risky Intervention and Surveillance /Maintenance of the Environment) and the the European partners of the FW6/FW7-IST projects(a.o. View-Finder (aiming the assistance of fire-fighting/protection services) and Guardians (aiming the use of swarm of robots for Rescue assistance) organise dedicated sessions on the following topics:

Scope and topics

Robotics solutions properly sized with suitable modularized mechanized structure and well adapted to local conditions of unstructured, sometimes unknown fields can greatly improve the safety and the security of personnel as well as work efficiency, productivity and flexibility. Solving this problem presents challenges in robotic mechanics and mobility, sensors and sensor fusion, autonomous or semi autonomous navigation and machine intelligence.

The workshop will review and discuss the available risky intervention/environmental surveillance technologies along with their limitations and discusses the development efforts to automate tasks related to detection / decontamination / neutralization process wherever possible through robotization. Specific topics include but are not limited to:

Inspection of fire or crisis grounds
CBRN-E threats
Map building and reconstruction
Networked crisis management tools
Human-Machine Interfaces
Remote controlled, semi-autonomous, autonomous
robot navigation
Victim Detection
Multi-robot cooperation
Swarm of robots
Crisis Management tools