RoboCup Rescue 2016 Team Description Paper

This paper describes the improvements on robots, their operation and strategies developed by Team Yıldız. Since our last appearance in RoboCup Open in Germany, our team concentrated on full autonomy. As a result of experiences gained during the competition in 2015, the team especially worked on efficient navigation, mapping and victim detection strategies and developed its own algorithms. Our team decided to join this years competition with a single four wheeled robotic car. A new model of a tracked robot is also developed it will not be used during this years championship.

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