Search-and-rescue using team of robots
Michał Gnatowski · INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL · 2006
"In this paper a method of autonomous space searching is described. The task is to search the given area andto find lost objects (e.g. injured people or bombs) as fast as possible. The given area is a building which isdivided into rooms. It is assumed that the lost objects are located in groups and finding one object suggeststhere are more lost objects in the room. Robots divide the area and each robot searches its room. If it findsa lost object it broadcasts the information to whole team and the negotiation mechanism starts. The robotswhich win the auction, cancel their task and go to the room, where the lost object was found, to find otherobjects faster. A prototype system was realized in a symulator written in the Java language"