Future Security 2 nd Security Research Conference Karlsruhe Author: Title: page 1 AMROS – an Autonomous Mobile Robotic System for Multisensor Surveillance of Real Estate T. Emter, E. Monari, Ch. W. Frey, T. Müller, H.-B. Kuntze, A. Laubenheimer, M. Müller Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing (IITB) Fraunhoferstr. 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Multisensor service robots operating in indoor and outdoor environments of endangered public and industrial objects (e.g. stadiums, waterworks, power plants, chemical facilities, etc.) are able to make an essential contribution to combating terrorist and criminal threats. More efficient and reliable than human guards, robots have the ability to patrol nearly autonomously, detect and diagnose suspicious situations automatically and execute adequate protection measures. The AMROS (Autonomous Mobile Robots for Security Applications) system, developed at the Fraunhofer Institute IITB, is an autonomous mobile robotic system for multisensoric outdoor surveillance of real estates. The AMROS system concept will be presented in this paper. Introduction For security surveillance of endangered public and industrial objects (e.g. stadiums, waterworks, power plants, chemical facilities, etc.) autonomous outdoor inspection robots can be more efficient and reliable than human guards since they are able to automatically patrol and perform adequate protection operations. While for the automatic inspection of indoor environments powerful robotic systems are commercially available for the outdoor inspection of estates only a few suitable systems are on the market. Thus, there is a considerable demand for the development of autonomous multi- sensor based robot systems which can comply with the more complex and varying outdoor surveillance scenarios.