Editing GUARDIANS

[[Image:Guardians-concept.jpg|320px|right|thumb|Guardians impression]]
=The GUARDIANS project=

[[Image:New.gif]] GUARDIANS final report Part 1 draft now available
[http://shura.shu.ac.uk/1089/1/FinalReportPart1.pdf here].

[[Image:New.gif]] Some of our outputs are available [http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/mmvlwiki/index.php/Saez here].



==Objective==
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The [[Guardians|GUARDIANS]] project is the [http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=PROJ_IST&ACTION=D&RCN=80210 European Union 6th framework program project no: 045269].
The Guardians project involves 8 European partners. The Guardians are a swarm of autonomous robots applied to navigate and search an urban ground. The project's central example is search and rescue in an industrial warehouse in smoke, as proposed by the Fire and Rescue Service of South Yorkshire. The job is time consuming and dangerous; toxics may be released and humans senses can be severely impaired. They get disoriented and may get lost. The robots warn for toxic chemicals, provide and maintain mobile communication links, infer localisation information and assist in searching.

The project will end January 2010.

=Sample outputs=
* [[List of GUARDIANS deliverables|Deliverables]]
Click above to see a list of publicly available deliverables that have been generated by the project
* [[List of GUARDIANS publications|Publications]]
Click above to view a number of publications linked to the project.

=Media=


[[Image:star.JPG|160px|GUARDIANS in the Sheffield Star (29/07/09)]]
[[Image:Screenshot.png|160px|GUARDIANS on Channel 4 news (More4, UK)]]
[[Image:Rescuerobots3.jpg|160px|Science Museum Display]] [[Image:warehouse.jpg|160px|Typical Warehouse where robots may assist fire-fighter]] [[Image:ProEngineering.jpg|160px|Article in Professional Engineering]]

=Partners=
'''Coodinator'''
* Sheffield Hallam University, [http://www.shu.ac.uk/mmvl Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory], Sheffield, United Kingdom 

'''Academic Partners'''
* [http://www.robot.uji.es/ Universitat Jaume I de Castellon, Robotic Intelligence Lab], Spain
* [http://www.deec.uc.pt/ Faculdade Ciencias e Tecnologia Da Universidade de Coimbra, Dep. Eng. Electrotecnica], Portugal
* [http://ele.etu.edu.tr/ TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Universitesi, Dept. Electrical & Electronics Engineering], Turkey
* [http://wwwhni.uni-paderborn.de/ UniversitÃ¤t Paderborn, Heinz Nixdorf Institute], Germany

'''Industrial partners'''
* [http://www.innowebtive.com/kteam/ K-Team SA, Mobile Robotic Group], Switzerland
* [http://www.robotnik.es/automation/ Robotnik Automation, SLL], Spain
* [http://www.syfire.gov.uk/ South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, Command Headquarters], United Kingdom
* [http://www.spaceapplications.com/ Space Applications Services], Belgium



=External Links=
* Guardians
** [http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/meri/mmvl/research/projects/guardians/index.html Official Sheffield Hallam University Guardians page]
** [http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/guardians/index.php/Guardians Guardians private section]

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* Publicity
** [http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Robot-feeling-the-heat.5502210.jp GUARDIANS in the Sheffield Star 'Robot feeling the heat']
** [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/rise+of+the+machines/3286757 GUARDIANS on Channel 4 (More4): news report on fire-fighting robots - airplay: 28/07/09]
** [http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/firefightingrobots/ GUARDIANS and VIEW-FINDER exhibit in London science museum]
** [[Media:ProEngineering.jpg|Article]] about the GUARDIANS robots in Professional Engineering - 03/09/08, Vol 21, Number 15, p.35.

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* Other projects
** [http://www.k-team.com/ Khepera robot]
** [http://securityvideo.blogspot.com/2007/05/dramatic-footage-silent-drowning-pool.html Vision IQ underwater safety camera saves life]
** [http://www.dribblingdackels.de/ Aibo robots at TU Darmstadt] and the [http://www.thenewrobot.com/ new robot dog to replace Aibo] 


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