NEWS

• Our fire simulator and the 3D viewer won the infrastructure competition at RoboCup 2004, Lisabon (July 2004)
• Rescue Freiburg won the world championship at RoboCup 2004, Lisabon (July 2004)
  • Results RoboCup 2004

• We contribute two new tools to the RobocupRescue community (June 2004):
  • RobocupRescue 3D Viewer
  • RobocupRescue Fire Simulator
• Rescue Freiburg is the winner of the Rescue Simulation competition at the RoboCup German Open 2004 (April 2004)

• Qualification RoboCup 2004: Log file, team description and travel support form (zipped tar file)

Download sources and TDP

ResQ Freiburg2004 source code 2004 and ResQ Freiburg2004 team description 2004.

Overview

RobocupRescue:

The history of search and rescue services has repeatedly shown the difficulty of the coordination of rescue teams in disastrous situations. The RoboCupRescue domain is an attempt to simulate such situations, particularly the aspects of a dynamically changing environment, e.g. the distribution of fire, bandwidth limitation for communication and the high demand for collaborative sensing and acting in a large-scale environment.

The task is to successfully coordinate teams of agents for the sake of the limitation of damage to people and buildings. There are two classes of agents: platoon and center agents. Platoon agents are small teams that operate in the field, for example a fire brigade, and center agents are stations that may instruct the teams in the field with new tasks. Groups of platoon agents take one out of three roles, namely fire brigade, ambulance team and police force. To each kind one center agent is associated.

The domain is a real multi-agent scenario since most problems are not solvable by an agent on its own. Fire brigades, for example, rely on blocked roads cleared by police forces in order to reach their target. Buildings are extinguished more efficiently by more than one team, particularly if the fire spreads out in many directions. Moreover, the task is challenging due to limited communication bandwidth, the agents' limited field of view and the difficulty to predict how disasters evolve over time, e.g. how the structure of the city influences the burning speed and direction of the fire.

Our team:

We are a team of Ph.D. and MSc students at the University of Freiburg in the group "Foundations of AI" of Prof. Bernhard Nebel. We are Alexander Kleiner, Michael Brenner, Tobias Bräuer, Christian Dornhege, Moritz Göbelbecker, Matthias Luber, Johann Prediger, Jörg Stückler



Picture: A rescue operation of the Rescue Freiburg team in the Italian town Foligno.