RoboScout DTC
The University of Maryland RoboScout DTC Team is competing in the DARPA Triage Challenge, with the goal of performing triage assessment in a mass casualty event remotely and autonomously.
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UMD’s Team RoboScout Delivers Again
A University of Maryland (UMD) team that is participating in the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency Triage Challenge (DTC) has achieved new successes during Year Two of the three-year competition. Following a wrap-up event in Georgia that included two simulated disaster scenarios—a daytime air crash and a nighttime convoy assault—the team finished in second place, up from third place last year. The meet was held in late September and early October.
Systems Competition
Triage is essential in the case of mass casualty events in order to prioritize treatment of wounded within the critical initial window of time. The goal of the DTC Systems Competition is to develop stand-off sensors that can autonomously detect vital signs and physiological signatures via unmanned aerial and ground vehicles, to assist on-site medical personnel with prioritizing the most urgent casualties.
AI & Perception
Co-PI Dinesh Manocha (UMD) will train AI perception algorithms to integrate data from multiple stand-off sensor streams to generate a real-time assessment.
Robotics & Autonomy
PI Derek Paley (UMD) and co-PI Joshua Gaus (UROC) are collaboratively working on autonomous control and field testing of multi-agent robot systems with onboard perception and planning under the ARL-funded ArtIAMAS cooperative agreement.
Medical Trauma & Sensors
Co-PI Sarah Murthi (UMB) is an experienced clinical researcher specializing in surgical trauma care at the Cowley Shock Trauma Center of the UMD School of Medicine. Key Personnel Bruce Lynch (UMB), is the director of the US Air Force Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS).
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