Assessing the Search and Rescue Domain as an Applied and Realistic Benchmark for Robotic Systems
It aims to establish a realistic benchmark for robotic systems in the SAR domain, which is incremental as it builds on existing reviews and proposals.
The paper reviews the state of the art in Search and Rescue (SAR) robotics, describing applications, requirements, and current systems, and proposes using SAR as an applied benchmark for Field Robotics.
Aim of this paper is to provide a review of the state of the art in Search and Rescue (SAR) robotics. Suitable robotic applications in the SAR domain are described, and SAR-specific demands and requirements on the various components of a robotic system are pictured. Current research and development in SAR robotics is outlined, and an overview of robotic systems and sub-systems currently in use in SAR and disaster response scenarios is given. Finally we show a number of possible research directions for SAR robots, which might change the overall design and operation of SAR robotics in the longer-term future. All this is meant to support our main idea of taking SAR applications as an applied benchmark for the Field Robotics (FR) domain.