WARA PUBLIC SAFETY
Research Focusing on Autonomy in Public Safety
WARA-PS (WASP Research Arena for Public Safety), is a research arena in the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program (WASP) supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. As Sweden’s largest individual research initiative, WASP fosters innovation and advancement in AI and autonomous systems.
WARA-PS serves as a multi-domain platform dedicated to advancing research in collaborative systems focused on public safety. With growing national and international interest in public safety and security research, WARA-PS is committed to exploring and testing the capabilities of collaborative heterogeneous agents in public safety related scenarios such as search and rescue missions, surveillance, transportation, and forest fire management.
The arena provides a context for researchers to apply their expertise across a wide range of public safety domains, including trajectory planning, augmented reality, optimal control, human-AI teaming, and sensor fusion. Research efforts within WARA-PS are supported by the Core Team and a network of partners, such as Saab, Combitech, Ericsson, LiU AIICS, and LiU MIT.
The WARA-PS community offers resources and fosters collaboration among academia, industry, and societal partners, ensuring that research is both innovative and relevant to real-world applications. To ensure high societal relevance, WARA-PS has close collaboration with real end users, such as the rescue service.
RESOURCES
Resources available in WARA-PS
By being a part of WARA-PS researchers can access and make use of the unique resources within the project. WARA-PS provides access to unmanned vehicles such as boats, underwater vehicles, drones, sensors, and cameras, as well as platforms, storage, and frameworks to help further the research conducted in the arena. WARA-PS focuses largely on collaborating, heterogeneous systems consisting of a variety of vehicles – both manned and autonomous – and platforms, where integration is one of the key challenges.
A big part of WARA-PS is sharing and utilizing all available resources in the arena, whether you work remotely or on location and have access to the physical resources. Simulations are therefor one of the tools used to support researchers with testing and demonstrating results. The WARA-PS Core Team is available to support integration of new results as well as to further develop the resources available in the project.
All resources are described here in the WARA-PS Portal. To utilize our resources an account is needed, you can request an account by contacting us.
ACTIVITIES
Take part in WARA-PS events
The workshops and demonstrations within WARA-PS are also ways to get better insights of different areas of research and can lead to closer collaborations between both researchers and industries, as well as to provide inspiration and contacts for people within the project. These are also opportunities to perform crucial activities such as data collection and field tests using the physical resources and environment around Gränsö, Västervik.
WARA-PS invites all partners to our yearly events to discuss research, demonstrate new results, collect data, and inspire each other. Besides the planned events, researchers can perform data collections and test supported by the Core Team by request when needed. Consult the WASP Yearly Calendar to find the next WARA-PS event or find out more about upcoming WARA-PS events here in the portal!
