What is Robocup?! Robocup is an iternational research and education initiative. its goal is to foster artificial intlligence and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be examined and integrated. The concept of soccer palying robots was first introdued in 1993. Folowing a two-year feasibility study,in agust 1995, an announcement was made to introduce the first international conferences and soccer games. In july 1997, the first official conference and game was held in Nagoya,Japan. Folowed by Paris, Stockholm, Melbourne, Seattle and Fukuoka(Japan). Following previous conferences and games, the 7th RoboCup held in Padova,Italy,in july 2003. today, more than 3000 researchers from 35 countries and regions (Japan, Iran, United states of America, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic,France, Germany, Malasya, Mexico, Holland, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Tiwan, Turkey, Slovakia, etc.), participated in variouse projects such as International games, Conferences,Researches and Educational Programs.
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Robocup Rescue:

Disaster rescue is one of the most seriouse social issue which involves very large numbers of hetreogeneous agents in the hostile envirounment. The intention of the Robocup Resce project is to promote research and developement in this socially significant domain at various levels envolving multi-agent team work coordiantion, physical robotic agent for research and rescue, information infrasructure, personal digital assistants, a standard simulator and decision support systems, evaluation benchmarks for rescue strategies and robotic systems that are all integrated into a comprehensive system in future.

IUTMicrobot got 3rd place in Rescue Robot League Competition , Padova, Italy, 2003.

Abstract— IUTMicrobot has focused it’s researches on Rescue Robots chiefly for 2 years. The goal was implementing robots, to make search and rescue action easier and more safe in real condition. The idea was implementing two robots, one fast and small; to catch a global view of disaster and prepare a path sketch, another one slow but with complete set of equipments such as GPS or Nontouch Thermometers; to get victims and environment details.

NIST test bed provided in RobocupRescue 2003, was a good opportunity to test robots in semi-realistic settings , and learn more from other participants. Refer to our lab tests, we guessed we would have no problem with software, electronic design, algorithm, even mechanics. The ability of our Robots in remotely detecting victims , using none-touch accurate sensors, perfect & user friendly interface, and generating map outside the disaster arena, are main advantages for successful search and rescue actions. Different parts of Robots ; sensors, hardware & software, are presented. Then the Robot control scheme, mapping method, and user interface is introduced. Also, this paper addresses the problem of mobile robot localization in urban environment.



Isfahan University of Technology Electrical & Computer Engineering Research Center