Publications listed below are relevant to research conducted by UvARescue and Amsterdam Oxford Joint Rescue Forces in the USARSim simulator. For a more extensive list of publications related to this competition see the RoboCup Rescue wiki.

2010

• Julian de Hoog, Stephen Cameron and Arnoud Visser, "Autonomous Multi-Robot Exploration in Communication-Limited Environments", Proceedings of the 11th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (Taros 2010), Augustus/September 2010 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Julian de Hoog, Stephen Cameron and Arnoud Visser, "Dynamic Team Hierarchies in Communication-Limited Multi-Robot Exploration", Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security & Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2010), July 2010 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Chaim Bastiaan, "Virtual victims in USARSim", Bachelor’s thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2010 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Niels Out, "Virtual radar sensor for USARSim", Bachelor’s thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2010 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Okke Formsma, Nick Dijkshoorn, Sander van Noort and Arnoud Visser, "Realistic Simulation of Laser Range Finder Behavior in a Smoky Environment", Proceedings CD of the 14th RoboCup International Symposium, Singapore, June 2010. To be published in "RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV", Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, Springer, Heidelberg. ( PDF ).
  
  
• Julian de Hoog, Stephen Cameron and Arnoud Visser, "Selection of Rendezvous Points for Multi-Robot Exploration in Dynamic Environments", Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), May 2010. ( PDF ).
  
  
• Maarten van der Velden, Wouter Josemans, Bram Huijten and Arnoud Visser, "Application of Traversability Maps in the Virtual Rescue competition", Proceedings of the RoboCup IranOpen 2010 Symposium (RIOS10), April 2010. ( PDF )
  
  
• Frans A. Oliehoek and Arnoud Visser, "A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Collaboration: Principal Description Methods and Efficient Heuristic Approximations", in "Interactive Collaborative Informations Systems", (edited by R. Babuska and F.C.A. Groen), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 281, p. 87-124, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, March 2010. ( PDF ) .
  
  
• Fares Alnajar, Hanne Nijhuis and Arnoud Visser, "Coordinated action in a Heterogeneous Rescue Team", in "RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII", (edited by J. Baltes et al.), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 5949, p. 1-10, Springer, Heidelberg, February 2010 ( PDF ) .
  

2009

• Julian de Hoog, Stephen Cameron and Arnoud Visser, “Role-Based Autonomous Multi-Robot Exploration”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications (Cognitive 2009), November 2009 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Benjamin Balaguer, Stephen Balakirsky, Stefano Carpin and Arnoud Visser, "Evaluating maps produced by urban search and rescue robots: lessons learned from RoboCup", Autonomous Robots Vol. 27 (4), pp. 449-464, November 2009. (Available online).
  
  
• Helen Flynn, Julian de Hoog and Stephen Cameron, "Integrating Automated Object Detection into Mapping in USARSim", Workshop on Robots, Games, and Research: Success stories in USARSim (IROS 2009), p. 29-34, St. Louis, USA, October 2009 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Quang Nguyen and Arnoud Visser, "A Color Based Rangefinder for an Omnidirectional Camera", Workshop on Robots, Games, and Research: Success stories in USARSim (IROS 2009), p. 41-48, St. Louis, USA, October 2009 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Gideon Emile Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Tijn Schmits and Arnoud Visser, "Identifying Free Space in a Robot Bird-Eye View", Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2009), Mlini/Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2009 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Benjamin Balaguer, Stefano Carpin, Stephen Balakirsky and Arnoud Visser, "Evaluation of RoboCup Maps", Proceedings of the 9th Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PERMIS'09) workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, September 2009. ( PDF).
  
  
• Stephen Balakirsky, Stefano Carpin and Arnoud Visser, "Evaluation of The RoboCup 2009 Virtual Robot Rescue Competition",
  Proceedings of the 9th Performace Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PERMIS'09) workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, September 2009. ( PDF).
  
  
• Helen Flynn, "Machine Learning Applied to Object Recognition in Robot Search and Rescue Systems", MSc Thesis, Oxford University, September 2009. ( PDF ).
  
  
• Magda Jankowska, "A Hough Transform Based Approach to Map Stitching", MSc Thesis, Oxford University, September 2009. ( PDF ).
  
  
• Radoslaw Sobolewski, "Machine Learning for Automated Robot Navigation in Rough Terrain", MSc Thesis, Oxford University, September 2009. ( PDF ).
  
  
• Arnoud Visser, Bayu A. Slamet and Max Pfingsthorn, "Robust Weighted Scan Matching with Quadtrees", in "Proc. of the Fifth International Workshop on Synthetic Simulation and Robotics to Mitigate Earthquake Disaster (SRMED 2009)", Graz, Austria, July 2009 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Arnoud Visser, Gideon Emile Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Hanne Nijhuis, Fares Alnajar, Bram Huijten, Maarten van der Velden, Wouter Josemans, Bas Terwijn, Christiaan Walraven, Quang Nguyen, Radoslaw Sobolewski, Helen Flynn, Magda Jankowska, and Julian de Hoog, "Amsterdam Oxford Joint Rescue Forces - Team Description Paper - Virtual Robot competition - Rescue Simulation League - RoboCup 2009", Proceedings CD of the 13th RoboCup Symposium, Graz, Austria, July 2009 ( PDF ).
  
  
• Quang Nguyen, "A Color Based Range Finder for an Omnidirectional Camera", Bachelor’s thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam (June 2009) ( PDF ).
  
  
• Christiaan Walraven, "Using path planning to grade the quality of a mapper", Bachelor’s thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam (June 2009) ( PDF ).
  
  
• Tijn Schmits and Arnoud Visser, "An Omnidirectional Camera Simulation for the USARSim World", in "RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII", (edited by L. Iocchi, H. Matsubara, A. Weitzenfeld, C. Zhou), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 5339, p. 296-307, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, June 2009. ( PDF )
  
  
  

2008

• Steven Roebert, Tijn Schmits and Arnoud Visser: Creating a bird-eye view map using an omnidirectional camera.
  Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2008), page 233-240, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands October 30-31, 2008 ( PDF )
  
  
• A. Visser, T. Schmits, S. Roebert, G.M. de Buy Wenniger and J. de Hoog, "Amsterdam Oxford Joint Rescue Forces - Team Description Paper - Virtual Robot competition - Rescue Simulation League - Latin American RoboCup Open 2008", Salvador, Brazil, October 2008 ( PDF )
  
  
• Julian de Hoog, Stephen Cameron and Arnoud Visser: Robotic Search-and-Rescue: An integrated approach.
  Proceedings of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory Student Conference 2008, page 28-29, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, October 2008 ( PDF )
  
  
• A. Visser and Julian de Hoog, "Amsterdam Oxford Joint Rescue Forces - Realistic Simulations to aid research and education in advanced Robot Control algorithms", Proceedings of the Scientific ICT Research Event Netherlands (SIREN 2008), page 22, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2008 ( PDF )
  
  
• A. Visser, T. Schmits, Steven Roebert and Julian de Hoog, "Amsterdam Oxford Joint Rescue Forces - Team Description Paper - Virtual Robot competition - Rescue Simulation League - RoboCup 2008", Proceedings CD of the 12th RoboCup Symposium, Suzhou, China, July 2008 ( PDF )
  
  
  
• Arnoud Visser, Xingrui-Ji, Merlijn van Ittersum, Luis A. González Jaime and Laurentiu A. Stancu, "Beyond frontier exploration", in "RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI", (edited by U. Visser, F. Ribeiro, T. Ohashi, F. Dellaert), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 5001, p. 113-123, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, July 2008.( PDF )
  
  
• Max Pfingsthorn, Bayu Slamet and Arnoud Visser, "A Scalable Hybrid Multi-Robot SLAM Method for Highly Detailed Maps", in "RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI", (edited by U. Visser, F. Ribeiro, T. Ohashi, F. Dellaert), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 5001, p. 457-464, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, July 2008. ( PDF )
  
  
• Steven Roebert: Creating a bird-eye view map using an omnidirectional camera.
  Bachelor’s thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam (June 2008) ( PDF )
  
  
• Tijn Schmits: Development of a Catadioptric Omnidirectional Camera for the USARSim Environment. Master’s thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam (June 2008) ( PDF )
  
  
• Arnoud Visser and Bayu A. Slamet, "Including communication success in the estimation of information gain for multi-robot exploration", in the "Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'08)", IEEE Publishing, ISBN 978-963-9799-18-9, June 1, 2008. (PDF)
  
  
• Arnoud Visser and Bayu A. Slamet, "Balancing the information gain against the movement cost for multi-robot frontier exploration", in "European Robotics Symposium 2008", (edited by Herman Bruyninckx, Libor Přeučil and Miroslav Kulich), Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, volume 44, pages 43-52, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, February 12, 2008. ( PDF )
  

2007

• Arnoud Visser, Bayu Slamet, Tijn Schmits, Luis A. González Jaime, and Aksel Ethembabaoglu "Design decisions of the UvA Rescue 2007 Team on the Challenges of the Virtual Robot competition", Proc. of the Fourth International Workshop on Synthetic Simulation and Robotics to Mitigate Earthquake Disaster, July 2007, Atlanta, GA (pp. 20-26). ( PDF )
  
  
• Aksel Ethembabaoglu: Active target tracking using a mobile robot in the USARSim. Bachelor’s thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam (June 2007) ( PDF )
  

2006

• Max Pfingsthorn et al.: UvA Rescue Team 2006; RoboCup Rescue - Simulation
  League. In: Proceedings CD of the 10th RoboCup International Symposium. (2006) ( PDF )
  
  
• Bayu Slamet and Max Pfingsthorn: ManifoldSLAM: a Multi-Agent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System for the RoboCup Rescue Virtual Robots Competition. Master’s thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam (2006) ( PDF )
  
  
• F.A. Oliehoek, A. Visser, "A hierarchical model for decentralized fighting of large scale urban fires" , Hierarchical Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems H-AAMAS'06, Hakodate, Japan (May 2006) ( PDF )