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-led Team Selected for DARPA Triage Challenge

A multi-institutional team led by the University of Maryland (UMD) has been selected for the DARPA Triage Challenge, in which participants compete to develop novel methods of detecting injuries, particularly in mass casualty incidents, so that medical personnel can respond more quickly, efficiently, and precisely…

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 Darren Robey (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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