USAR Urban Search and Rescue

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USARUrban Search and Rescue
Project Goal To develop hybrid teams of
autonomous heterogeneous agentsincluding cyber
agents, robots, and humansthat intelligently
coordinate and plan to accomplish urban search
and rescue in disaster situations. We envision a
Multi-Agent System (MAS) in which humans, agents,
and robots work together seamlessly to provide
aid as quickly and safely as possible in the
event of an urban disaster.

• The RETSINA MAS Provides
• Dynamic team coordination, supporting teamwork
  between entities of varying capabilities
• Adjustable Autonomy for adaptively sharing
  control, responsibilities, and commitments at all
  task abstraction levels and by all types of team
  members (agents, robots, people)
• Abstraction-based tiered robot architecture that
  consists of incremental functional abstractions
  with real-time behavior based controllers at the
  lowest level, executive near-term explicit
  reasoning and scheduling at the middle level, and
  declarative planning and communication at the top
  level
• Scalability to larger or smaller numbers of
  robotic and software agents without affecting the
  team goal through loss of coordination, etc.

Search and Rescue Results
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