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December 15, 2025

• Recent citation of the Beyond Frontier paper: GVD-Exploration: An Efficient Autonomous Robot Exploration Framework Based on Fast Generalized Voronoi Diagram Extraction, officially published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. No explicit mention of USARSim or rescue, but the experiment was performed in ROS1 Kinetic / Gazebo / TurtleBot2.

December 12, 2025

• Looking at the citations of 16 Years of RoboCup Rescue (34x/49x), selecting the simulation oriented:
  • G. Gil, J. A. Cobano, F. Caballero and L. Merino, "Evaluation of Neural Euclidean Signed Distance Fields for Distance-Aware Local Path Planning," 2024 7th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Madrid, Spain, 2024:
    a building at Eindhoven University of Technology simulated with ROS Noetic distribution and the Gazebo simulator
• Not simulation, but high impact real rescue citations:
  • Delmerico, J., Mintchev, S., Giusti, A., Gromov, B., Melo, K., Horvat, T., Cadena, C., Hutter, M., Ijspeert, A., Floreano, D. and Gambardella, L.M., 2019. The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics. Journal of Field Robotics, 36(7), pp.1171-1191.
  • Shan, Zeyong, Ruijian Li, and Sören Schwertfeger. 2019. "RGBD-Inertial Trajectory Estimation and Mapping for Ground Robots" Sensors 19, no. 10: 2251. Paper with (ROS1 Melodic) code and dataset. The MARS Map Dataset also has Velodyne data.
  • Surmann, H., Daun, K., Schnaubelt, M., von Stryk, O., Patchou, M., Böcker, S. et al. (2024) Lessons from robot-assisted disaster response deployments by the German Rescue Robotics Center task force. Journal of Field Robotics, 41, 782–797
    
  • This article recommends in discussion section better simulation (for planning and training)
• Should also check the Robotics Handbook and MOOC applications.
• Also check MAGIC and DARPA virtual.
• Was not aware of the Carrybot challenge inside RoboCup Rescue.
• Classic citations:
  • Tadokoro, S., Kitano, H., Takahashi, T., Noda, I., Matsubara, H., Shinjoh, A., Koto, T., Takeuchi, I., Takahashi, H., Matsuno, F., Hatayama, M., Nobe, J., Shimada, S.: The RoboCup-Rescue project: A robotic approach to the disaster mitigation problem. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2000 ICRA Millennium Conference), vol. 4, pp. 4089–4094 (2000)
  • Nourbakhsh, I.R., Sycara, K., Koes, M., Yong, M., Lewis, M. & Burion, S. (2005) Human-robot teaming for search and rescue. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 4(1), 72–79.
• The article Emerging UAV technology for disaster detection, mitigation, response, and preparedness mentions several algorithms tested in siumation, but refers to Network simulator version 2 (NS2) and optimized network engineering tools (OPNET) have been used for performance evaluation for most of the current routing schemes.

October 8, 2025

• Chapter 17 of SLAM Handbook (Open-World Spatial AI) describes in section 17.3.4 Task-Driven map representations, which could be very interesting for RoboCup rescue.
• An impressive example is CLIO (RAL 2024). Paper with code

September 29, 2025

• Looked at the ROS example code from the Avular Origin-One robot.

September 24, 2025

• In the prelude of Part of SLAM handbook (page 361) Marc Pollefeys writes: "We yearn for SLAM to lead rescue missions in disaster-stricken zones, locating survivors and saving lives".

  July 24, 2025

  • Found this Japanese Rescue Simulation page, including a 2016 video of a map I didn't know (Aichi Institute of Technology campus?)
  • The participants in each league are archived at IEEE RAS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE FOR RoboCup.
  • The 3D viewer from Alexander Kleiner is still on youTube (2013)
  • The RoboCup 2000 in Melbourne can be found Wayback Machine, but without pictures, including RoboCup Rescue, which points to Kobe RoboCup Rescue site.

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