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

From September 23^rd to October 2^nd the first TRADR Joint Exercise takes place at the Tremora hospital (ex American hospital of Calambrone) near Pisa, Italy, in cooperation between the TRADR partners and the firefighters from the Firebrigade of Pisa. One of the goals is to test the system components and run the system at the hospital site with the participation of the end-users. The end-user’s input and feedback during the Joint Exercise, is another important aspect. Moreover, useful data is collected and component level experiments are run. The use cases tested deals with multiple asynchronous sorties and large-scale static disaster.

TRADR organized a summer school at the Czech Technical University in Prague (hosted by Center for Machine Perception) on July 28 – August 1, 2014. The main topic of the summer school is the world representation for perception/reasoning. The summer school topic relates to long-term multi-robot missions and involved robotic manipulation, which is the topic of TRADR interest.  The seed of the summer school audience were the members of the TRADR consortium, though the event is open to others, as long as capacity allows. Detailed Information can be found here.