TRADR Summer School on Human-Robot Teaming
21-25 of Augustus, Utrecht, the Netherlands
The TRADR summer school on Human-Robot Teaming will be held from 21-25 August 2017 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The event consists of a five-day course to provide participants with a full overview and hands-on experience related to Human-Robot Teaming. For more information have a look on the website.
The third TRADR General Assembly is going to be held at the TU in Delft from May 3-4, 2017.
The TRADR Year 3 review took place at the Scuola Di Formazione Operativa in Montelibretti, (Italy) of Vigili del Fuoco on Tuesday March 7 and Wednesday March 8.
The system demonstration was successful and the overall progress of the project was evaluated by the predicate “excellent” or “very good”.
More detailed information will follow soon.
Team members of TRADR received the Best Late Breaking Report Award at the International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2016 for their work titled “3D Localization, Mapping and Path Planning for Search and Rescue Operations”. The report issued from a collaboration with the Alcor Lab from the Sapienza University of Rome and presented results obtained at the third Joint Exercise of the FP7 TRADR project.
The yearly TRADR Evaluation exercise (T-Eval) took place end October 2016 in Dortmund, Germany. The location was an old coal-fired power plant `Knepper’ in Dortmund, a large industrial complex which offered multiple stories, obstacles and rubble and allowed for indoor UAV flying.
Together with end-users from the fire department of the city of Dortmund, a number of disaster response exercises were enacted in which the TRADR system was used to provide robotic response.
Mission objectives included scanning of the environment and creation of maps enabling autonomous UGV navigation, multi-robot patrolling and searching for Points of Interest, such as smoke, fire and victims.
In addition, the robotic arm mounted on the UGVs was used to retrieve a chemical sample from the disaster environment. The exercises were successful and will contribute to a further improvement and refinement of the TRADR system in Year 4 of the project.
