RoboCup Rescue: search and rescue in large-scale disasters as a domain for autonomous agents research
Hiroaki Kitano, Satoshı Tadokoro, Itsuki Noda, Hitoshi Matsubara, Tokiichiro Takahashi, A. Shinjou, Susumu Shimada · 2003
Disaster rescue is one of the most serious social issue which involves very large numbers of heterogeneous agents in the hostile environment. RoboCup-Rescue intends to promote research and development in this socially significant domain by creating a standard simulator and forum for researchers and practitioners. While the rescue domain intuitively appealing as large scale multi-agent domains, it has not yet given through analysis on its domain characteristics. In this paper, we present detailed analysis on the task domain and elucidate characteristics necessary for multi-agent systems for this domain.