Revision as of 15:11, 9 April 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.

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

Sample outputs

• Deliverables
• Publications

External Links

• Guardians
  • Official MMVL Guardians page
  • Guardians private section
• Other projects
  • Khepera robot
  • Vision IQ underwater safety camera saves life
  • Aibo robots at TU Darmstadt and the new robot dog to replace Aibo
• Publicity
  • GUARDIANS and VIEW-FINDER exhibit in London science museum
  • Scanned article about the GUARDIANS robots in Professional Engineering - 03/09/08, Vol 21, Number 15, p.35.