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December 15, 2025
December 12, 2025
- Looking at the citations of 16 Years of RoboCup Rescue (34x/49x), selecting the simulation oriented:
- 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
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
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