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Inside the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League, the mission is to use robots to rescue as many victims as possible after a disaster. The research challenge is to let the robots cooperate as a team. This year in total 15 teams from 8 different countries have been active in the competitions. This paper highlights the approaches of the winners of the virtual robot competition, the infrastructure competition, and the agent competition.
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Amigoni, F., Visser, A., Tsushima, M. (2013). RoboCup 2012 Rescue Simulation League Winners. In: Chen, X., Stone, P., Sucar, L.E., van der Zant, T. (eds) RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI. RoboCup 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7500. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39250-4_3
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