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The results presented in this paper prove the viability of developing a robotic network for search and rescue operations. With the capability of peer-to-peer communication, such robots form an ad-hoc network called Cooperative Mobile Network (CMN). All robots in the CMN are semi-autonomous in that each operates in three modes: 1) fully controlled by a human commander; 2) controlled by a human commander for critical operations only; and 3) fully relying on its own intelligence to make decisions for cooperative operations. Due to the constraints of weight and processing power, diverse CMN operations utilize multiple robots with complementing functionalities. This work was performed at the Structures Propulsion And Control Engineering (SPACE) NASA sponsored University Research Center (URC) of excellence at the California State University, Los Angeles.
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Herman, G. et al. (2014). Cooperative Semi-autonomous Robotic Network for Search and Rescue Operations. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Aging and Assistive Environments. UAHCI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8515. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07446-7_61
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