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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a set of reference test arenas for evaluating the performance of mobile autonomous robots performing urban search and rescue tasks. The… (More)
This paper discusses the advancement and proliferation of the Reference Test Arenas for Urban Search and Rescue Robots as representative search and rescue environments, which allow objective… (More)
In this paper, we discuss the development and proliferation of robot test arenas that provide tangible, realistic, and challenging environments for mobile robot researchers interested in urban search… (More)
- Stefano Carpin, Jijun Wang, Michael Lewis, Andreas Birk, Adam Jacoff
- RoboCup
- 2005
USARSim is a high fidelity robot simulation tool based on a commercial game engine. We illustrate the overall structure of the simulator and we argue about its use as a bridging tool between the… (More)
- Robin R. Murphy, Satoshi Tadokoro, +4 authors Aydan M. Erkmen
- Springer Handbook of Robotics
- 2008
In order to summarize the status of rescue robotics, this chapter will cover the basic characteristics of disasters and their impact on robotic design, describe the robots actually used in disasters… (More)
- Jason Pusey, Abbas Fattah, Sunil Agrawal, Elena Messina, Adam Jacoff
- IROS
- 2003
In this paper, we study the design and workspace of a 6–6 cable-suspended parallel robot. The workspace volume is characterized as the set of points where the centroid of the moving platform can… (More)
The RoboCrane is a cable driven, multi-purpose manipulator based on the Stewart Platform Parallel Link Manipulator. It provides six degree-of-freedom load control via teleoperative, graphic off-line… (More)
- Adam Jacoff, Anthony Downs, Ann-Marie Virts, Elena Messina
- PerMIS
- 2008
Stepfield pallets are a fabricated and repeatable terrain for evaluating robot mobility. They were developed to provide emergency responders and robot developers a common mobility challenge that… (More)
- Hui-Min Huang, Elena Messina, Adam Jacoff
- PerMIS
- 2009
The performance of intelligent unmanned systems (UMSs) must be able to be measured to ensure that they can meet the operational requirements. A generic framework to enable capturing and organizing… (More)
- Elena Messina, Adam Jacoff
- 2006
In this paper, we describe work in performance standards for urban search and rescue (USAR) robots begun in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security. This program is being coordinated by the… (More)