Every semester there is a CSCI 445 final contest task with rules, for Search & Rescue they are as follows:

Task:

Using two autonomous robots each built by two teams of 2-3 people, accomplish the following tasks inside a 12'x12' square lab environment:

1. The robots must enter the field in the upper-left hand opening to the field.
   
2. Find each of the eight victims, each in an unknown location in the environment
   
3. Gently grab the victim and return the victim to the 'hospital' area
   
4. Find the box of supplies in the environment
   
5. Collaborate to return the box to the storage depot. The box is heavy enough so that one robot alone cannot push it, but two can push it.

Except for programming in advance the relative location of the hospital and box storage depot, the robots have no other knowlege of the environment, including the locations of the eight victims or the box. The robots also have to be autonomous, meaning no human guidance or control once they have been started and dropped into the environment.

Rules:

1. The locations of the victims and box must be unknown to the robot.
2. The robots must treat the victims gently, as if they were human.
3. The victims will be green, the box will be orange, but robots can be colored any way the teams want.
4. The victims are human shaped.
5. The box must be pushed by two robots.
   
6. Nothing can be done to damage the equipment on the robots (no ramming the box with the camera, etc.).
7. You can use any sensor, motor or lego blocks available in the lab that are unclaimed by another team.
   
8. Robots may communicate with each other using whatever method or sensors desired (usually IR).
   
9. All the victims must be taken to the hospital within 6 minutes.
10. After all the victims are rescued the robots have a maximum of 4 minutes to push the box into the storage depot.