Revision as of 13:08, 29 July 2009

Guardians impression

The GUARDIANS project

Objective

The GUARDIANS project is the 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

• Deliverables

Click above to see a list of publicly available deliverables that have been generated by the project

• Publications

Click above to view a number of publications linked to the project.

Media

Exploded view of Khepera Robot

Partners

Coodinator

• Sheffield Hallam University, Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Academic Partners

• Universitat Jaume I de Castellon, Robotic Intelligence Lab, Spain
• Faculdade Ciencias e Tecnologia Da Universidade de Coimbra, Dep. Eng. Electrotecnica, Portugal
• TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Universitesi, Dept. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Turkey
• Universität Paderborn, Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Germany

Industrial partners

• K-Team SA, Mobile Robotic Group, Switzerland
• Robotnik Automation, SLL, Spain
• South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, Command Headquarters, United Kingdom
• Space Applications Services, Belgium

External Links

• Guardians
  • Official Sheffield Hallam University Guardians page
  • Guardians private section

• Publicity
  • GUARDIANS on Channel 4 (More4) news on fire-fighting robots
  • GUARDIANS and VIEW-FINDER exhibit in London science museum
  • Article about the GUARDIANS robots in Professional Engineering - 03/09/08, Vol 21, Number 15, p.35.

• Other projects
  • Khepera robot
  • Vision IQ underwater safety camera saves life
  • Aibo robots at TU Darmstadt and the new robot dog to replace Aibo