EURON actively encourages the exchange of ideas and people between the research and industrial communities so that each can benefit from the expertise of the other.

The Network sponsors a prize for the successful transfer of good ideas from the research world to the robotics industry.

Cooperative navigation between air and ground robots enhances their ability in search and rescue-like operation scenarios. Search and Rescue (SAR) operations are a challenging application for robotics since the environment is unstructured and often unsafe.

The long-term objectives of the project consist of applications to SAR under large-scale catastrophe scenarios, namely after an earthquake. However, the current proposal is focused on the first steps towards the long-term goal and, as such, it refers to simpler scenarios and is based on some simplifying hypotheses, such as daylight operation and pre-planned robotic tasks.

Read more at rescue.isr.ist.utl.pt