Disaster response

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

Jeffrey Delmerico, Stefano Mintchev, Alessandro Giusti, Boris Gromov, Kamilo Melo, Tomislav Horvat, César Cadena, Marco Hutter, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Luca Maria Gambardella, Roland Siegwart, Davide Scaramuzza

Citations: 361 • 2019

Moonlight in Miami: Field Study of Human-Robot Interaction in the Context of an Urban Search and Rescue Disaster Response Training Exercise

Jennifer Burke, Robin R. Murphy, Michael D. Coovert, Dawn L. Riddle

Citations: 196 • 2004

Emergency response by robots to Fukushima‐Daiichi accident: summary and lessons learned

Shinji Kawatsuma, Mineo Fukushima, Takashi Okada

Citations: 173 • 2012

NimbRo Rescue: Solving Disaster‐response Tasks with the Mobile Manipulation Robot Momaro

Max Schwarz, Tobias Rodehutskors, David Droeschel, Marius Beul, Michael Schreiber, Nikita Araslanov, Ivan Ivanov, Christian Lenz, Jan Razlaw, Sebastian Schüller, David Schwarz, Angeliki Topalidou‐Kyniazopoulou, Sven Behnke

Citations: 146 • 2016

Multi-robot task allocation in disaster response: Addressing dynamic tasks with deadlines and robots with range and payload constraints

Payam Ghassemi, Souma Chowdhury

Citations: 76 • 2021

IoT based Smart Robotic Design for Identifying Human Presence in Disaster Environments Using Intelligent Sensors

M. Tamilselvi, M. Kanniga Parameshwari, X. Mercilin Raajini, G Chamundeeswari, K. Kalaiselvi, V. Samuthira Pandi

Citations: 73 • 2024

A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives

Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Trung Dong Huynh, Feng Wu, Yukki Ikuno, Jack Flann, Luc Moreau, Joel E. Fischer, Wenchao Jiang, Tom Rodden, Edwin Simpson, Steven Reece, Stephen Roberts, Nicholas R. Jennings

Citations: 72 • 2016

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

Ivana Kruijff‐Korbayová, Francis Colas, Mario Gianni, Fiora Pirri, Joachim de Greeff, Koen V. Hindriks, Mark Neerincx, Petter Ögren, Tomáš Svoboda, Rainer Worst

Citations: 71 • 2015

Flexible Disaster Response of Tomorrow: Final Presentation and Evaluation of the CENTAURO System

Tobias Klamt, Małgorzata Kameduła, Hakan Karaoğuz, Navvab Kashiri, Arturo Laurenzi, Christian Lenz, Daniele Leonardis, Enrico Mingo Hoffman, Luca Muratore, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Francesco Porcini, Diego Rodríguez, Zeyu Ren, Fabian Schilling, Max Schwarz, Massimiliano Solazzi, Michael Felsberg, Antonio Frisoli, Michael Gustmann, Patric Jensfelt, Klas Nordberg, Jürgen Roßmann, Lorenzo Baccelliere, Uwe Süss, Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Sven Behnke, Xi Chen, Domenico Chiaradia, Torben Cichon, Massimiliano Gabardi, Paolo Guria, Karl Holmquist

Citations: 71 • 2019

Designing, developing, and deploying systems to support human–robot teams in disaster response

Geert-Jan Kruijff, Ivana Kruijff‐Korbayová, Shanker Keshavdas, Benoît Larochelle, Miroslav Janíček, Francis Colas, Ming Liu, François Pomerleau, Roland Siegwart, Mark A. Neerincx, Rosemarijn Looije, Nanja Smets, Tina Mioch, Jurriaan van Diggelen, F. Pirri, Mario Gianni, Flaminia Ferri, Matteo Menna, Rainer Worst, Thorsten Linder, Vitaly T. Tretyakov, Hartmut Surmann, Tomáš Svoboda, Michal Reinštein, Karel Zimmermann, Tomáš Pětříček, Václav Hlaváč

Citations: 71 • 2014

Development of experimental legged robot for inspection and disaster response in plants

Takahide Yoshiike, Mitsuhide Kuroda, Ryuma Ujino, Hiroyuki Kaneko, Hirofumi Higuchi, Shingo Iwasaki, Yoshiki Kanemoto, Minami Asatani, Takeshi Koshiishi

Citations: 61 • 2017

Wireless Sensor Networks for Disaster Management and Emergency Response using SVM Classifier

B. Meenakshi, A. Vanathi, B. Gopi, S. Sangeetha, L. Ramalingam, S. Murugan

Citations: 60 • 2023

Exploring humanoid robots locomotion capabilities in virtual disaster response scenarios

Karim Bouyarmane, Joris Vaillant, François Keith, Abderrahmane Kheddar

Citations: 56 • 2012

Establishing human situation awareness using a multi-modal operator control unit in an urban search & rescue human-robot team

Benoît Larochelle, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Nanja Smets, Tina Mioch, Peter Groenewegen

Citations: 41 • 2011

Disaster response and recovery from the perspective of robotics

Shinsuk Park, Yoojin Oh, Daehie Hong

Citations: 38 • 2017

Developing a Robust Disaster Response Robot: CHIMP and the Robotics Challenge

G. Clark Haynes, David Stager, Anthony Stentz, J. Michael Vande Weghe, Brian Zajac, Herman Herman, Alonzo Kelly, Eric Meyhofer, D.M. Anderson, Dane Bennington, David Butterworth, Chris Dellin, M. A. George, José Luis González–Mora, Morgan Jones, Prathamesh Kini, Michel Laverne, Nick Letwin, Eric Perko, Chris Pinkston, David Rice, Justin Scheifflee, Kyle Strabala, Mark Waldbaum, Randy Warner

Citations: 38 • 2017

Multi-robot task allocation for fire-disaster response based on reinforcement learning

Yantao Tian, Mao Yang, Xinyue Qi, Yongming Yang

Citations: 37 • 2009

The Experimental Humanoid Robot E2-DR: A Design for Inspection and Disaster Response in Industrial Environments

Takahide Yoshiike, Takeshi Koshiishi, Mitsuhide Kuroda, Ryuma Ujino, Yoshiki Kanemoto, Hiroyuki Kaneko, Hirofumi Higuchi, Satoshi Komura, Shingo Iwasaki, Minami Asatani

Citations: 37 • 2019

Robot Navigation from Human Demonstration: Learning Control Behaviors

Maggie Wigness, John G. Rogers, Luis E. Navarro‐Serment

Citations: 36 • 2018

Robot-Assisted Nuclear Disaster Response: Report and Insights from a Field Exercise

Manolis Chiou, Georgios-Theofanis Epsimos, Grigoris Nikolaou, Pantelis Pappas, Giannis Petousakis, Stefan Mühl, Rustam Stolkin

Citations: 35 • 2022