RescueRobot: Modeling Complex Robots Behaviors in Emergency Situations

This paper aims at studying complex behaviors of search and rescue robots in emergency situations. We used as environment of the simulation NetProLogo in order to: i) build a simulated scenario with robots, humans beings, and emergency exits, ii) endow robots with reasoning rules, and iii) evaluate robots behavior on the basis of two search strategies. Preliminary results show that one search strategy reaches better performance. Next studies will cover more simulations and different scenarios.