Overview
The Aerial Response Robot or Search and Rescue (SAR) drone was part of early research starting already in 2002 in the CUB Robotics Group on using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), respectively Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV) for SAR missions. The related research includes the autonomous mapping of areas or the exploration of a disaster site in cooperation with an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV).
From 2006 on, the according research involved a cooperation with AirRobot and a drone from that company was used in multiple competitions and field trials, e.g., the “European Land Robots Trials (ELROB)” or the “Response Robot Evaluation Exercises (RREE)” in Disaster City in Texas.
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