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[Project image] EMBER
Head: Sanjiv Singh
Contact: Sanjiv Singh (ssingh@ri.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: FRC

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - January 1999.
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Project Description

Our goal is to assist first responders in emergency situations by providing tracking information and the ability for coordination. In these harsh and dynamic situations, there is no guarantee of a communication infrastructure or access to GPS; therefore to provide tracking and coordination, we need to deploy our own infastructure.

The Ember project uses multi-agent teams, comprised of autonomous and human agents, to achieve effective results under emergency situations. Agents communicate through wireless networks in order to achieve difficult team oriented tasks. In the firefighting scenario, we would like to track the firefighter and provide accessible communciation to prevent dangerous situations. The goal of robot team is to track the firefighter while at the same time, leaving an adequate communication links back to the base station.

Personnel

Name Title Email Address
Joseph Djugash PhD Student, RI josephad@andrew.cmu.edu
Benjamin P Grocholsky Project Scientist grocholsky@ri.cmu.edu
Bradley Hamner Research Programmer bhamner@andrew.cmu.edu
Geoffrey's personal homepage Geoffrey Hollinger PhD Student, RI gholling@andrew.cmu.edu
Sanjiv's personal homepage Sanjiv Singh Associate Research Professor ssingh@ri.cmu.edu

Publications

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