This paper introduces the RoboCup-Rescue Simulation Project, a contribution to the disaster mitigation, search and rescue problem. A comprehensive urban disaster simulator is constructed on distributed computers. Heterogeneous intelligent agents such as fire fighters, victims and volunteers conduct search and rescue activities in this virtual disaster world. A real world interface integrates various sensor systems and controllers of infrastructures in the real cities with the virtual world. Real-time simulation is synchronized with actual disasters, computing complex relationship between various damage factors and agent behaviors. A mission-critical man-mnchine interface provides portability and robustness of disaster mitigation centers, and augmented-reality interfaces f o r rescue parties an real disasters. It also provides a virtualreality training function for the Public. This diverse spectrum of RoboCup-Rescue cont:-ihtes to the creation of the safer social system.
In the RoboCup Rescue Simulation Project, several kinds of simulator such as Building-Collapse and Road-Blockage Simulator, Fire Spread Simulator and Tra c Flow Simulator are expected to provide a complicated situation in the case of the large-scale disaster through their synergistic e ect. It is called Simulator Complex. This article addresses, rst, system components of the prototype version of this Simulator Complex, then, explains each of the simulators, and nally refers on the Space-Time GIS(Geographical Information System) which i s e xpected to play a role of DBMS(DataBase Management System) in the whole project.
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