This
talk will give an overview of the SHERPA project. The SHERPA project aims for
having a fleet of heterogeneous robots supporting a human rescue team in alpine
environments. I will introduce the the benchmark scenarios for summer and
winter rescue and discuss the problems that rescue teams face. Then the various
involved robotic platforms together their capabilities and how they can
complement each other are introduced. This will lead to a discussion of the
collaborative aspects and the required reasoning capabilities of the overall
system. Finally, I will show the latest results of the project.

Bio:

Nico Huebel received his Dipl.-Ing.
(M.Sc.) in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany,
in 2010. From 2010 to 2014 he was Research Assistant at the Institute for
Dynamics and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2014 he is a Research
Scientist in the Robotics Research Group of KU Leuven. He was a research
scholar at Tokyo Institute of Technology and a member of R&D at KUKA
Robotics. His research interests are in the area of robotic systems, learning,
control systems theory, and software engineering for these areas.