2017-2018 Rescue Robotics

Background
The UCI Rescue Robotics Competition is an annual event hosted by UCI, Vital Link, and the Orange County School Districts to expose and provide STEM education to high school and middle school students through robotics. Competing teams design and build ground and/or aerial rescue robots to navigate outdoors and find the most victims. Our role in this competition is to develop the base robotics platforms on which the students base and adapt their designs on.
Goal and Objectives
Develop fully autonomous ground robots to recognize, locate, and successfully log the GPS location of disaster victims and implement swarm capabilities for more efficient performance.
Innovation
This year we want to incorporate swarming capabilities to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of the robots at completing their task and benefit the students’ designs in the competition.
The Bigger Picture
This research has a global relevance in disaster relief. Real world applications of this technology include searching for survivors after a disaster, sending real time updates after a disaster for the appropriate help, and deploying swarms of robots to replace human search and rescue teams when the aftermath is too dangerous (e.g. after a nuclear power plant explosion). Using rescue robots can decrease the time searching for survivors and increase the chances of survival in thousands of search and rescue operations performed worldwide each year.
Last Name
First Name
UCI E-mail
Major
Grad Qtr
ArabiFarahfarabi@uci.eduEECSS18
GonzalezJosephjosepdg1@uci.eduEECSS18
AuVickivickia@uci.eduMAES18
OgataTracytyogata@uci.eduMAES18
YuHaoranhaorany2@uci.eduCSES18

Name: Farah Arabi 
Email: farabi@uci.edu
Team Lead

Name: Vicki Au
Email: vickia@uci.edu
Safety Manager

Name: Tracy Ogata
Email: tyogata@uci.edu
Document Manager

Name: Joseph Gonzalez
Email: josepdg1@uci.edu
Purchasing Manager

Initial Project Information

  • Project ID#

    MAE0135

  • Course Code

    19250

  • Project Type

    Research

  • Field of Interest

    Ground and aerial vehicle autonomous systems

  • Description

    Design and implementation of autonomous ground and aerial vehicles capable of finding natural disaster victims and reporting back their pictures and global position.

  • Maximum Number of Students

    10

  • Requirements

    contact advisor

  • Additional Information

    Professor McCarthy is the interface for MAE students working on the project Rescue Robotics that Professor Ian Harris and Professor Jeff Krichmar advise.

  • Contact Method

    email advisor

Ian Harris
Professor, Advisor
iharris@uci.edu
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~harris

Jeff Krichmar
Professor, Advisor
jkrichma@uci.edu

J. Michael McCarthy
Professor, MAE Interface
jmmccart@uci.edu
http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/
http://mechanicaldesign101.com/

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