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Are you interested in sponsoring the 2011/2012 Search & Rescue Robot team?
We are looking for sponsors to support the team in developing our new robot and travelling to compete in the Rescue Robot Cup in Germany, which we won two years ago. If you would like to sponsor us, we would love you to contact us, and if you want to know more, you can read our 2011/2012 Sponsorship pack here.
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About: 2010/2011 Aims and Objectives
This group’s aims and objectives for this year are similar to that of last year. However, this year’s group will be challenged to exceed the achievements of last year’s highly successful team who won the Robocup Rescue German Open and won the ‘Best-In-Class Mobility’ award.
Our aims are:
- To enter the 2012 European Robocup Rescue competition in Magdeburg, Germany, with the goal of retaining the European championship;
- To complete the competition with at least double the points of the 2010/11 team and obtain ‘Best-In-Class Mobile Manipulation’ award;
- To qualify for and enter the Robocup Rescue World Championships;
- To assess the possibility of WMR becoming its own entity and make the platform viable for commercial release.
To achieve these aims we must:
- Raise enough sponsorship to enter the Robocup Rescue World Championships;
- Remove any weaknesses identified over the past year with the tele-operated robot:
- Improve the existing Human-Machine Interface (HMI)
- Fix looseness in robot joints
- Design an improved, backlash-free arm
- Test the robot in a more real world situation by utilising environments used by the emergency services;
- Increase the reliability of the autonomous robot.
Autonomous Project
Our second robot, designed to demonstrate autonomous navigation and victim finding, is being developed in partnership with students from the Computer Science department. For more information on the work that they are doing, you can visit their project site here.
Past Projects
To find out about the work done in previous stages of the project, view our annual project reports in the reports section.
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