Survey of Rescue Competitions and Proposal of New Standard Task from Ordinary Tasks

Abstract

This study surveys rescue robot competitions and tracks the changes in the RoboCup Rescue League. The real robot league has been changed because of requests from real disasters; however, the virtual robot league competition basically remains the same as it was in the beginning. In terms of some elements, the virtual robot league competition has capabilities of reproducing real situations for rescue robot evaluations when compared to the real robot league. We propose herein a new competition task to mimic actual situations. We used a tank array model as the stage of the competition task after the Fukushima nuclear power plant.