Contribution

An Adaptable Multi-Robot Support System for Disaster Response

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Abstract

In the recent years, many use-cases have been found for robots in disaster response operations, and many functionalities have been developed for those robots. But in order to facilitate the use of those robots in real operations, their usage have to be integrated at the mission level. In this work, we present our architecture for a multi-robot support system for disaster response operations. The proposed system’s goal is to integrate agent-oriented programming for high-Level decision-making with arbitrary robot platforms, refining Goals into executable robot skills that are monitored and reasoned on. We focus on the software architecture and implementation details and provide details on the system capabilities and on the technologies used, and we outline the process for extending and adapting the proposed architecture to new projects. We discuss the different use-cases where the proposed system was deployed, and distribute its current open-source implementation: https://gitlab.tugraz.at/D214D39B6CEB7ECC/mrss

Keywords: Software Architecture, Multi-Robot System, Disaster Response

How to Cite:

Frering, L. & Steinbauer-Wagner, G., (2025) “An Adaptable Multi-Robot Support System for Disaster Response”, ARW Proceedings 25(1), 37-42. doi: https://doi.org/10.34749/3061-0710.2025.6