The ’Husky’ robot carrying out the autonomous exploration of an area in the desert during the AMADEE-18 Mars simulation.
By Michael Müller How do you build robot systems which can explore the environment autonomously? The field robotics team TEDUSAR deals with this question and many others. Technology and EDucation for Urban Search And Rescue robots ) of TU Graz, are students who share a fascination: robots. More precisely - autonomous robots which can perform certain tasks independently without outside help. It all began with the development of robotic systems which could be deployed to support emergency services in disaster operations. We encountered a number of challenges, such as the unstructured - in other words, natural - surroundings, each with their obstacles, the automatic creation of maps of the environment and the autonomous gathering of information. For example, the team has successfully participated in several competitions in the RoboCup Rescue League, which deals with searching for casualties in a disaster scenario. We later deepened our knowledge of the field of navigation and, in collaboration with Post AG and I-TEC Styria, developed a robot which can deliver packages autonomously in the inner city of Graz.
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