First integration tests towards the project's first prototype

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Published on Thursday, 12 September 2013 11:37

The first prototype of the CHOPIN R&D project has been being prepared for the past 5 months. A first set of integration tests of the several components was carried out on Sep. 11, 2013, in the ISR garage and in a classroom, where a simulacrum of a search and rescue mission to respond to a small urban fire was done.

In these first integration tests the following components were integrated:

• SLAM;
• Autonomous fire outbreaks and victims search based on RDPSO;
• Recognition of mission contexts with mobile robots, including detection of fire outbreaks and leakage of hazardous substances;
• Recognition of contexts about the fireman's activity, based on a hand-held device worn by the fireman (a iPhone has been used in the proof of concept);
• Mission monitoring in the Command Center (CC).

Some photos taken during the experiments can be seen here. A video of one of the experiments is available here.

Two additional Pioneer mobile robots were delivered

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Published on Wednesday, 28 August 2013 15:00

After a first delivery of three Pioneer 3-DX mobile robots on Jun. 27, 2012, two additional mobile robots were delivered to ISR on Aug. 28, 2013. These two newest robots were purchased to Robosoft (France).

A photo taken upon the arrival of the two robots can be seen here. The newest robots are depicted in front, on the left.

Four papers of CHOPIN project accepted in SSRR 2013!

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Published on Friday, 06 September 2013 22:33

Four papers reporting recent developments within the CHOPIN R&D project were accepted to be presented at the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013), which will be held at the Linköping University, Sweden in Oct. 21-26, 2013. This is an amazing result because all of the four papers submitted (100%) were accepted in SSRR 2013!

One of the papers, the paper titled “The CHOPIN project: Cooperation between Human and rObotic teams in catastroPhic INcidents”, is a 4-pages position paper presenting an interesting outline of the project.

The references of the four papers are:

• Rui P. Rocha, David Portugal, Micael S. Couceiro, Filipe Araújo, Paulo Menezes and Jorge Lobo, “The CHOPIN project: Cooperation between Human and rObotic teams in catastroPhic INcidents”, In Proc. of 11th IEEE Int. Symp. on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013), Linköping, Sweden, Oct. 21-26, 2013.
• David Portugal, Micael S. Couceiro and Rui P. Rocha, “Applying Bayesian learning to multi-robot patrol”, In Proc. of 11th IEEE Int. Symp. on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013), Linköping, Sweden, Oct. 21-26, 2013.
• Nuno L. Ferreira, Micael S. Couceiro, André Araújo and Rui P. Rocha, “Multi-sensor fusion and classification with mobile robots for situation awareness in urban search and rescue using ROS”, In Proc. of 11th IEEE Int. Symp. on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013), Linköping, Sweden, Oct. 21-26, 2013.
• João M. Santos, David Portugal and Rui P. Rocha, “An evaluation of 2D SLAM techniques available in Robot Operating System”, In Proc. of 11th IEEE Int. Symp. on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013), Linköping, Sweden, Oct. 21-26, 2013.

Dissemination event at a high school in Figueira da Foz

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Published on Friday, 07 June 2013 18:57

David Portugal and José Santos presented an exhibitor of the CHOPIN project in a dissemination event that took place at a high school in Figueira da Foz on Jun. 7, 2013: the "Feira Tecnológica da Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim de Carvalho". During the event, a demonstration using a Pioneer 3-DX mobile robot and a Traxbot mobile robot was presented to the visitors.

Some photos of the event are available at:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.470508079695308.1073741834.171331369612982&;type=3