I-Rescue Research Project

Larger-scale Collaborations and Challenge Projects

• FireGrid [ local page ]
• openk.org - OpenKnowledge - and emergency response testbed

• Grand Challenges for Emergency Response

• Natural Disasters - can we save more lives? - Seminar and Discussion on The Indian Ocean Tsunami: causes, effects and responses. Royal Museum of Scotland, 3rd February 2005. [ e-Response talk by Austin Tate ]

Research Projects

• AIAI Planning and Activity Management Group Profile
• I-X: Intelligent Technology
• AKT: Advanced Knowledge Technologies

• CoSAR-TS: Coalition Search and Rescue - Task Support
• Co-OPR: Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery
• IM-PACs: Intelligent Messaging - Planning and Collaboration Systems - for emergency response
• I-Ex: Extreme Expedition Support

Previous Relevant Research Projects

• UK Search and Rescue - Knowledge Based Planning [1994-1996]
• CoAX: Coalition Agents eXperiment - intelligent multi-agent systems [2000-2002]
• CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid and oil spill e-Response task [2003-2005]

Student Projects

• Project AIBO - Human/Robot Teams
• Suggested Student Projects

• Helen Wollan M.Sc. Project - Incorporating Heuristically Generated Search Patterns in Search and Rescue [2003-2004]
• Clauirton Siebra Ph.D. Project - Hierarchical Suport for Emergency Response (e.g. in Kobe Earthquake) [2001-2005]
• Lewis Galloway - Undergraduate Year 4 Project - Speckled Computers and Mobile Agents for Search and Rescue [2005-2006]

Other Information

• Useful Links
• I-C2 Systems - Intelligent Communication and Coordination
• I-Rescue Team Trip to Japan, November 2005