Intelligent Interactive Technology
RoboCup:
Search and Rescue Planning
Software agents deployed in a simulated computer world can reason about strategies, learn from past experience and advise on particular courses of action given a particular situation, even if there are many unknowns. Emergencies see many people and resources working together in a complex and changing situation. Management of various resources and logistical support can be made more consistent given experimental results obtained in a domain like RoboCup.
Core technologies developed in RoboCup may be relevant to the following logistics areas:
- find available resources best matching a given task;
- find suitable tactical options for resource deployment;
- aggregate, roster (according to skills, training, experience) and dispatch to tasks people / vehicles / aircraft;
- monitor sudden changes/incidents.
In addition, electronic dissemination of information and technologies is immediately relevant to Services Sector, given that many services are affected during disasters: roads and traffic, business, communications, health, etc. In general, disaster mitigation measures require close coordination and participation of public and private organizations, schools, communities, and individual citizens in order to be most effective in their implementation.
For more information, see our media release "Smarter ways to tackle disasters" and media release from the Division of Building, Construction and Engineering on "Virtual Reality and Robots" - fire fighters' new allies.
SiroFire. Courtesy of Bushfire Behaviour and Management Group. CSIRO Forestry and Forest Product Division
To toplast updated
July 11, 2005 05:40 PM
Mikhail.Prokopenko@cmis.csiro.au