“The Night of Scientists” was held on 6 October in Prague and the TRADR partner CTU joined the nationwide science and technology popularization event. The theme was mobility. CTU presented among other interesting projects also TRADR.
Best SSRR 2017 Paper Awards
Team members of TRADR received the Best Paper Award for the registration paper with the title: “3D Registration of Aerial and Ground Robots for Disaster Response: An Evaluation of Features, Descriptors, and Transformation Estimation” at the International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2017. The paper issued from a collaboration with the Autonomous Systems Lab from the ETH Zurich and the Fraunhofer Institiute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS.
The paper titled “Reliable Real-Time Change Detection and Mapping for 3D LiDARs” from ETZ Zurich was also nominated for the Best Paper Award. Congratulations!!!
TRADR project on ROSCon main track!
ROSCon is an annual developers’ conference organized for users of ROS (Robot Operating System). This year it takes place in Vancouver and our talk about ROS use in TRADR project has been accepted and scheduled to Sep 22, 9:00-9:40.
Meet us at ROSCon or watch the video of the presentation shortly after ROSCon is over.
Talk details
Title: ROS for Search and Rescue Robotics: Tools and Lessons learned during TRADR
Abstract: Search and Rescue Robotics is an extremely challenging and broad area of robotics that has recently been experiencing enormous progress. In the last 3 years, the EU project TRADR investigated many aspects of the aforementioned field. With this talk, we would like to share with the ROS community the experience acquired in the development of our system based on advanced use of ROS, in testing and using various hardware, and in dealing with end-users that compose the human-robot teams during search and rescue missions.
TRADR demonstration for general public at the European Robotics League Emergency competition
A presentation of the TRADR project and a life demonstration of the TRADR system took place as part of the Public Program accompanying the European Robotics League – Emergency competition taking place on September 15-23 2017 in Piombino, Italy. The ERL Emergency is a civilian, outdoor robotics competition, with a focus on realistic, multi-domain emergency response scenarios. Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the ERL Emergency Grand Challenge can only be overcome when land, underwater and flying robots successfully cooperate. A public event late night on Sunday September 17 featured three EU-funded projects in the area of emergency response: Walk-Man, Sherpa and TRADR. The TRADR coordinator Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (DFKI MLT) together with Emanuele Gissi, a Fire Officer of the Italian Firecorps (Vigili del Fuoco) delivered a presentation about the scientific results of TRADR and the TRADR deployment in Amatrice after the devastating earthquake of August 2016. Luigi Freda (La Sapienza University, Rome) demonstrated two TRADR ground robots in action in autonomous multi-robot patrolling. The event was attended among others by Mady Delvaux, Member of the European Parliament, Anne Bajart from the EC, Alan Winfield from University of the West of England and the ERL Emergency Coordinator, Reinhard Lafrenz, Secretary General of euRobotics AISBL. The TRADR presentation and demonstration were a great success that draw the attention of a big audience despite the late night hour.
TRADR SIKS Summerschool 2017, August 21-25 in Utrecht, The Netherlands
An international group of students, postdocs and researchers with interest in the topic of human-robot teaming met in Utrecht on August 21-25 to attend the TRADR/SIKS summer school (https://sites.google.com/view/tradr/home).
The 5-day course covered aspects of teaming and collaboration between humans and robots in multiple domains.
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová (DFKI)
and Robin Murphy (Texas A&M University)
addressed the use of robots in disaster response missions. Matt Johnson (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition) presented Coactive Design and interdependence analysis, which help designers understand the impact of design choices on overall system performance when designing advanced and sophisticated human-machine systems. In a similar vein, Mark Neerincx (TNO) presented the situated Cognitive Engineering (sCE) methodology, which provides the ingredients for a systematic integration of human factors into an incremental and iterative development process. David Abbink (Delft University of Technology) shared insights in control using physical interaction through forces, applied in successful prototypes for controlling vehicles and telerobotic arms. Also Pieter Jonker (Delft University of Technology) shared his rich experience in developing robots for various applications. Maj. W.A.Samson (Royal Netherlands Army) and Sgt-Maj. Ben Schaik (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) shared their experiences with deployment of air and ground unmanned vehicles, respectively. The summer school program was rounded off by several practical interactive sessions. This was the fourth and final TRADR summer school.
See also the blogpost by Roland Meertens for further information.
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