The RoboCupRescue Simulation League competition is an international evaluation conference for the RoboCupRescue Simulation Project research.
The main purpose of the RoboCupRescue Simulation Project is to provide emergency decision support by integration of disaster information, prediction, planning, and human interface. A generic urban disaster simulation environment was constructed based on a computer network. Heterogeneous intelligent agents such as fire fighters, commanders, victims, volunteers, etc. conduct search and rescue activities in this virtual disaster world. Real-world interfaces such as helicopter images synchronizes the virtuality and the reality by sensing data. Mission-critical human interfaces such as PDA support disaster managers, disaster relief brigades, residents and volunteers decide their actions so as to minimize the disaster damage.
This problem introduces researchers advanced and interdisciplinary research themes. As AI/Robotics research, for example, behavior strategy (e.g. multi-agent planning, realtime/anytime planning, heterogeneity of agents, robust planning, mixed-initiative planning) is a challenging problem. For disaster researchers, RoboCupRescue works as a standard basis in order to develop practical comprehensive simulators adding necessary disaster modules.
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England training camp is a dump’ pants
The facilities the England squad will be using for Euro 2012 in Poland are currently something of a shambles. Fearless journo Nick Parker gets his Big Book Of Bad Words out to describe the complex in Krakow as ‘ramshackle’, inbound USA insurance ‘strewn with rubbish’, ‘tumbledown’ and ‘barely fit for a pub team’.Euro 2012 starts on June 8. We’ll wager that there won’t be rubble all over the floor of the showers come next summer. ‘THIS is the dump that will greet Fabio Capello when he arrives in South Africa today to visit his World Cup training camp.
Schadenfreude Corner
“The BBC’s Matt Slater will have every right to be laughing his c*ck off this morning.
Mr Rich for some reason didn’t go on to report that Fergie had an ‘unusually’ purple nose visitor insurance usa and was ‘unusually’ chewing furiously.”"Look at the number of big games these players play in. Every year for the last few years they have been involved in finals and semi-finals and quarter-finals and big games in the Premier League.”