GUARDIANS
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The GUARDIANS project
Objective
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.
Partners
Coodinator
- Sheffield Hallam University, Microsystems and Machine Vision Laboratory, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Academic Partners
- Universitat Jaume I de Castellon, Robotic Intelligence Lab, Spain
- Aculdade Ciencias e Tecnologia Da Universidade de Coimbra, Dep. Eng. Electrotecnica, Portugal
- TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Universitesi, Dept. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Turkey
- Universitaet 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
