2023 – TDP – ALeRT – RoboCupRescue – Robot

This paper presents the progress made by Team ALeRT for the RoboCup RescueLeague using our quadruped Spot robot from Boston Dynamics. We are a team of research associates and students from the Mobile Autonomous Systems & Cognitive Robotics Institute (MASCOR) at FH Aachen Univer- sity of Applied Sciences. Our development efforts focus on integrating Spot and all associated devices and software into ROS 2. Specifically, we aim to evaluate autonomy using golog++, which enables task planning for deliberation, a critical aspect for rescue scenarios. We are currently integrating sensors, grasping, automated object labeling and human detection, image segmentation for semantic reasoning, and a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) for operators to facilitate autonomous behavior