Objective The GUARDIANS are a swarm of autonomous robots applied to navigate and search an urban ground. The project's central example is an industrial warehouse in smoke, as proposed by the Fire and Rescue Service. The job is time consuming and dangerous; toxics may be released and humans senses can be severely impaired. They get disoriented and may get lost. The robots warn for toxic chemicals, provide and maintain mobile communication links, infer localisation information and assist in searching. They enhance operational safety and speed and thus indirectly save lives.The robots navigate autonomously and accompany a human squad-leader. They connect to a wireless ad-hoc network and forward data to the squad-leader and the control station. The network is self-organising, adapts to connection failures by modifying its connections from local up to central connections. The autonomous swarm operates in communicative and non-communicative mode. In communicative mode automatic service discovery is applied: the robots find peers to help them. The wireless network also enables the robots to support a human squad-leader operating within close range. The aim is for flexible and seamless switching between these modes in order to compensate for loss of network signals and to support and safeguard the squad-leader. Several robot platforms are used, off-the-shelf mini-robots as well as middle sized robots. The emphasis in data collection is on toxic plume detection, to enable olfactory-based navigation, allow safe progress for the human squad-leader and to detect plume sources.The major aim of the project is to develop a swarm of autonomous robots that is able to adequately assist and safeguard a human squad leader. The project organises workshops with end-users (rescue workers and fire-fighters) and the advisory board, to assess the demonstrations and to disseminate research results. The workshops, moreover, aim at exploring additional exploitation of results. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.6.1 - Advanced Robotics Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY Address Howard street S1 1WB Sheffield United Kingdom See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FACULDADE CIENCIAS E TECNOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rua silvio lima, polo ii - universidade de coimbra 3030-790 Coimbra See on map K-TEAM SA Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rue galilee 9 1400 Yverdon-les-bains See on map ROBOTNIK AUTOMATION, SLL Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Calle berni y catala, 53, bajo izquierda 46019 Valencia See on map SOUTH YORKSHIRE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Regent street S70 2PQ Barnsley See on map SPACE APPLICATIONS SERVICES Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Leuvensesteenweg 325 1932 Zaventem See on map TOBB EKONOMI VE TEKNOLOJI UNIVERSITESI Türkiye EU contribution € 0,00 Address Sogutozu cad. 43, sogutozu 06560 Ankara See on map UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Warburger strasse 100 33098 Paderborn See on map UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avenida vicent sos baynat s/n 12006 Castellon de la plana See on map
