Objectives

FC Portugal: Coordination of Heterogeneous Teams in Search and Rescue Scenarios project objective is the development of a team to participate in RoboCup rescue competitions including several research innovations like the use of learning methodologies to improve the agent skills, supervision agents and new coordination methodologies to improve the team performance.

The project specific objectives are:

	Definition of a team strategy for search and rescue tasks including sub strategies for fire brigades, ambulance teams and police forces;
	Definition of a hierarchical agent architecture for rescue agents including learning, communication and advanced coordination capabilities;
	Implementation of communication, coordination and supervision methodologies in agent teams accomplishing complex tasks in dynamic environments;
	Integration of learning methodologies to improve agents’ performance.

The project aims at participating in RoboCup Rescue 2005 and 2006 international competitions (to be held in Osaka – Japan and Bremen - Germany).