2019 – TDP – NuBot – RoboCupRescue – Robot

Supported by China National University of Defense Technology, our team has designed the NuBot rescue robot including its mechanical structure, electronic architecture and software system. Benefiting from the strong mechanical structure, our rescue robot has a good mobility and is quite durable, it will not be trapped facing highly cluttered and unstructured terrains during the urban searching and rescuing. Its electronic architecture is built on the industrial standards which can bear electromagnetic interferences and physical impacts from the intensive tasks. The software system is developed upon the Robot Operating System (ROS). Using both self-developed programs and several basic open source packages provided by the ROS community, we developed a complete robotic software system which includs localization, mapping, exploration, object recognition, etc. Our robot system has been successfully applied and tested in the RoboCup Rescue Robot League (RRL) competitions, we entered the top 5 and won the Best in Class small robot mobility in 2016 RoboCup RRL Leipzig Germany and got all the Champions of RoboCup China Open RRL competitions since 2015. This year, we enhanced the mechanical structure and developed semi-autonomous abilities of our robot.