DRZ
In their daily work, task forces face a variety of challenges. Despite training, tactical concepts and protective equipment, thousands of emergency personnel are injured or killed worldwide every year. With the advancing technical development, it is foreseeable that mobile robot systems will take over tasks in order to make the operation more efficient and above all safer. The requirements on the supporting rescue robot systems are complex and varied.
Project duration: 01.10.2018 - 30.09.2022 (Phase 1: A-DRZ); 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2026 (Phase 2: DRZ)
The German Rescue Robotic Centre (DRZ) is intended to promote the use of robot systems in civil terrestrial emergency response in hostile environments. Here, the four guiding scenarios of fire, collapse & burial, detection of hazardous substances and flooding as well as the resulting challenges for rescue robotics form the basis. Among other activities, a so-called Living Lab will be set up for this purpose, i.e. a laboratory with an attached test site, in which scientists, companies and users can jointly research the best possible solutions for supporting rescue robots and test them in realistic environments.
The implementation of the DRZ will create a national competence centre with international appeal. For the first time in Germany, emergency forces, researchers and industry will work on the realization of autonomous rescue robots and the establishment of a national and international robotics task force. In addition, test and inspection criteria are developed in order to ensure later standardization and certification of different robot systems. The Communication Networks Institute (CNI) will be in charge of the work on robust wireless networking of robotic systems even under the difficult conditions of a rescue operation.
The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the grant agreement number 13N16476.
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Publications
German Rescue Robotics Center (DRZ): A Holistic Approach for Robotic Systems Assisting in Emergency Response
I. Kruijff-Korbayova, et al.
In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), New York, USA, October 2021.
Robust machine learning-enabled routing for highly mobile vehicular networks with PARRoT in ns-3
C. Schüler, M. Patchou, B. Sliwa, C. Wietfeld
In Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Ns-3, Virtual, June 2021.
Flying Robots for Safe and Efficient Parcel Delivery Within the COVID-19 Pandemic
M. Patchou, B. Sliwa, C. Wietfeld
In 2021 IEEE 15th International Systems Conference, Vancouver, Canada, April 2021
PARRoT: Predictive ad-hoc routing fueled by reinforcement learning and trajectory knowledge
B. Sliwa, C. Schüler, M. Patchou, C. Wietfeld
In 2021 IEEE 93rd VTC-Spring, Helsinki, Finland, April 2021. (Best Student Paper Award).
Cooperative Validation of CAM Position Information Using C-V2X
F. Eckermann, P. Gorczak, C. Wietfeld
In 2020 IEEE 92th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), Victoria, B.C., Canada, October 2020
The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Data-Driven and Model-Based Vehicular Network Simulation
B. Sliwa, M. Patchou, C. Wietfeld
In 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, December 2020
Hardware in the Simulation Loop Framework For Reproducible Testing of Rescue Robot Communications in Constrained Environments
M. Patchou, et al.
In IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 2020
SKATES: Interoperable Multi-Connectivity Communication Module for Reliable Search and Rescue Robot Operation
J. Güldenring, et al.
In 2020 International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Thessaloniki, Greece
Simulating hybrid aerial- and ground-based vehicular networks with ns-3 and LIMoSim
B. Sliwa, M. Patchou, K. Heimann, C. Wietfeld
In Proceedings of the 2020 Workshop on Ns-3, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, June 2020