Disaster Robotics Research Project

TRADR: Long-Term Human-Robot Teaming for Disaster Response

TRADR is an integrated european research project funded by the EU FP7 Programme, ICT: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics (Project Nr. 609763) in the area of robot-assisted disaster response (disaster robotics; robot search and rescue).

Using a proven-in-practice user-centric design methodology, TRADR develops novel science and technology for human-robot teams to assist in urban search and rescue disaster response efforts, which stretch over multiple sorties in missions that may take several days or weeks. The novel technology makes the experience during robot-assisted response to an emergency persistent. Various kinds of robots collaborate with human team members to explore or search the disaster environment, and gather physical samples from the incident site. Throughout this collaborative effort, TRADR enables the team to gradually develop its understanding of the disaster area over multiple, possibly asynchronous sorties (persistent environment models), to improve team members’ understanding of how to work in the area (persistent multi-robot action models), and to improve team-work (persistent human-robot teaming). TRADR focuses on an industrial accident scenario, but the technology is equally applicable for using robots in other disaster, emergency and urban search and rescue (USAR) scenarios, such as earthquake relief, as the TRADR deployment of robots in Amatrice, Italy, on September 1st 2016 shows.


 

Latest News

TRADR successully completed

TRADR successfully completed

Goodbye!

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TRADR Final review meeting

Final review meeting


The final review meeting of TRADR took place on March 21-22, in Mestre, Italy

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HRI 2018

TRADR at ERF 2018


Workshop on sharing data & other resources for emergency response robotics on March 15 at ERF, Tampere, Finland.

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2017 European Robotics Forum Workshop on S&R Robots

A TRADR related workshop on Search and Rescue robotics will be held in Edinbourgh on March, 23 inside the European Robotics Forum 2017.

More details can be found here.

 


 

Events


March

23
2018

TRADR End user symposium


The end user symposium organized by the Vigili del Fuoco Mestre will take place on March 23, 2018 in Mestre, Italy.


March

21-22
2018

TRADR Final Review meeting


The final TRADR Review meeting will take place on March 21-22, 2018 in Mestre, Italy.


March

13 -15
2018

TRADR at ERF 2018


Workshop on sharing data & other resources for emergency response robotics at ERF on March 15 in Tampere, Finland.

Breaking News: TRADR Disaster Robotics in Action

On September 1st 2016 TRADR successfully deployed disaster robotics technology in the earthquake-hit Amatrice. Read more.

Disaster robotics in action: TRADR robots in Amatrice

TRADR robots in front of the Sant’Agostino church in Amatrice.

Disaster robotics in action: TRADR control post in Amatrice

TRADR team control post during the robot-assisted inspection of the San Francesco church in Amatrice.

 

 


Selected Posts from TRADR Disaster Robotics Archive

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Videos

Disaster Response Robotics: TRADR Joint Exercise July 2016 Prague

Disaster Response Robotics: TRADR Joint Exercise July 2016 Prague more videos

Robots used for disaster response in Amatrice: The TRADR mission.

Robots used for disaster response in Amatrice: The TRADR mission.more videos

Summer School on Heterogeneity in Robotic Systems

Summer School on Heterogeneity in Robotic Systems more videos

 

Videos

Robots used for disaster response in Amatrice: The TRADR mission.

Robots used for disaster response in Amatrice: The TRADR mission.more videos
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Robots to the rescue in post-disaster recovery.


Robots to the rescue in post-disaster recovery.more videos
TRADR Technology Day 2017 in Rotterdam

TRADR Technology Day 2017 in Rotterdam more videos