NIKE MATE

Assistance system for emergency services operations in urban environments

NIKE MATE addresses the challenges faced by emergency services in complex and dynamic environments. NIKE MATE takes a holistic approach, emphasizing collaboration between heterogeneous units such as humans, robots, UGVs and UAVs to operate simultaneously in a condensed space.

Aims

The project aims to design and test a cooperative localization system for emergency services and technical assistance systems in an urban area. In particular, the focus is on underground facilities, whereby the operational transition between indoor and outdoor is also taken into account. In order to support the mission control the calculated positions of the individual actors (man and machine) shall be visualized in the Subsurface Operations Mission Tool (SOMT). SOMT was also used in the predecessor project NIKE-BLUETRACK to visualize positions. Based on the positions, the risk of collision between people and machines can be recognized at an early stage and collisions avoided.

Brief Description

Although the BMLV has the means to determine the position of its forces, these are primarily used for display in command information systems, they are not connected in the required manner and they do not work in a GNSS-denied environment. In particular, the passage between outdoor and indoor is a critical point in the integrated positioning system, as the available sensors change at this point and also have reduced accuracy and reliability in the peripheral areas. To counteract this problem, a GNSS pseudolite system is developed at the crossover point. The robot will be equipped with the corresponding pseudolite receivers in order to improve the positioning and also to embed the local coordinate system for indoor positioning in the global outdoor coordinate system.