Project description
Collaborative autonomous rescue robots for efficient emergency operations
In recent years, first responders have faced increasing challenges due to the rising frequency of severe weather events, disasters, and growing turmoil in urban areas. Unfortunately, this has often been accompanied by a lack of adequate tools to address harsh situations within dangerous environments. The EU-funded CARMA project aims to support first responders by developing a modular and intuitive platform integrating an innovative digital twin-based command and control system. The solution will enable the orchestration of a set of semi-autonomous and autonomous unmanned ground vehicles that can work in tandem with humans to provide crucial assistance even in low-visibility environments. To achieve this, the project will use innovative 3D radar-based environment mapping and analysis, with AI-enhanced victim- and threat-detection capabilities.
Objective
CARMA aims to co-create, through a user-centred iterative methodology involving a complementary set of end-users and SSH experts, a groundbreaking, modular and intuitive platform offering a complementary set of semi-autonomous and autonomous UGVs capable of working in symbiosis with humans to support and supplement first responders and assist citizen in a wide range of disaster situations, including those with very low visibility.
The project will build on the most advanced research results, including those from the INTREPID project, in the field of disaster robotics making them autonomous thanks to novel 3D radar-based environment mapping and analysis combined with Artificial Intelligence for enhanced path and mission planning as well as victim and threat detection. Symbiotic operations and natural robot/human interaction will be made possible by exploiting Generative Adversarial Networks for collaborative tasks, Natural Language Processing, and eXtended Reality technologies.
The project will evaluate the effectiveness and acceptance of the proposed platform in the frame of four ambitious pilots in complementary operational environments.
Coordinated by a large European industrial leader in the crisis management market, the consortium includes world-class research centres in the domain of AI and Social Robotics, robotics manufacturers, professional and volunteer first responders, as well as local authorities. It is complemented by an international Advisory Board and an Open Community to ensure openness and diversity. Social, ethical and legal constraints will be carefully considered during the project’s lifetime.
In order to prepare the ground for broad adoption and successful exploitation of the project’s results, CARMA will implement an ambitious communication and dissemination plan, an engaging training curriculum, and produce a white book proposing recommendations for doctrine changes to involve the proposed solution in crisis management operations
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
92350 LE PLESSIS ROBINSON
France