RT Journal Article
T1 The UMA-SAR Dataset: Multimodal data collection from a ground vehicle during outdoor disaster response training exercises.
A1 Morales-Rodríguez, Jesús
A1 Vázquez-Martín, Ricardo
A1 Mandow, Anthony
A1 Morilla-Cabello David, 
A1 García-Cerezo, Alfonso José
K1 Sistemas inteligentes de transporte
K1 Operaciones de búsqueda y rescate - Equipos y material
AB This article presents a collection of multimodal raw data captured from a manned all-terrain vehicle in the course of two realistic outdoor search and rescue (SAR) exercises for actual emergency responders conducted in Málaga (Spain) in 2018 and 2019: the UMA-SAR dataset. The sensor suite, applicable to unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), consisted of overlapping visible light (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) forward-looking monocular cameras, a Velodyne HDL-32 three-dimensional (3D) lidar, as well as an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and two global positioning system (GPS) receivers as ground truth. Our mission was to collect a wide range of data from the SAR domain, including persons, vehicles, debris, and SAR activity on unstructured terrain. In particular, four data sequences were collected following closed-loop routes during the exercises, with a total path length of 5.2 km and a total time of 77 min. In addition, we provide three more sequences of the empty site for comparison purposes (an extra 4.9 km and 46 min). Furthermore, the data is offered both in human-readable format and as rosbag files, and two specific software tools are provided for extracting and adapting this dataset to the users’ preference. The review of previously published disaster robotics repositories indicates that this dataset can contribute to fill a gap regarding visual and thermal datasets and can serve as a research tool for cross-cutting areas such as multispectral image fusion, machine learning for scene understanding, person and object detection, and localization and mapping in unstructured environments. The full dataset is publicly available at: www.uma.es/robotics-and-mechatronics/sar-datasets.
PB SAGE
YR 2021
FD 2021-04-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36795
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36795
LA eng
NO Morales J, Vázquez-Martín R, Mandow A, Morilla-Cabello D, García-Cerezo A. The UMA-SAR Dataset: Multimodal data collection from a ground vehicle during outdoor disaster response training exercises. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 2021;40(6-7):835-847. doi:10.1177/02783649211004959
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/2704
NO This work has been performed in the frame of the project ``TRUST-ROB: Towards Resilient UGV and UAV Manipulator Teams for Robotic Search and Rescue Tasks'', funded by the Spanish Government (RTI2018-093421-B-I00) and project UMA18-FEDERJA-090 funded by the Andalusian Regional Government (Junta de Andalucía).  David Morilla-Cabello was under a grant from the Spanish Government (Becas de colaboración 2019-2020).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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