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Urban search and rescue robots: from tragedy to technology
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The tragedy of September 11th 2001 at the World Trade Center is likely to propel search-and-rescue robotics into its next stage, just as the Kobe earthquake and the Oklahoma City bombing were the catalysts for this research domain.Abstract:
The tragedy of September 11th 2001 at the World Trade Center is likely to propel search-and-rescue robotics into its next stage, just as the Kobe earthquake and the Oklahoma City bombing were the catalysts for this research domain. Tragedy hasn't been the only motivator for urban search-and-rescue advancements in the USA and Japan; international competition has motivated both countries, first with RoboCup Soccer and more recently with RoboCup Rescue. We may see inexpensive urban search-and-rescue robots mass-produced within five years if advances in hardware and software keep up.read more
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Human-robot interactions during the robot-assisted urban search and rescue response at the World Trade Center
TL;DR: The World Trade Center rescue response provided an unfortunate opportunity to study the human-robot interactions during a real unstaged rescue for the first time, and a post-hoc analysis resulted in 17 findings on the impact of the environment and conditions on the HRI.
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Human-robot interactions during the robot-assisted urban search and rescue response at the World Trade Center
J.L. Casper,Robin R. Murphy +1 more
TL;DR: The World Trade Center (WTC) rescue response provided an unfortunate opportunity to study the human-robot interactions (HRI) during a real unstaged rescue for the first time as mentioned in this paper, which resulted in 17 findings on the impact of the environment and conditions on the HRI: skills displayed and needed by robots and humans, details of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) task, the social informatics in the USAR domain, and what information is communicated at what time.
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Disaster Robotics
TL;DR: This book provides a chronological summary and formal analysis of the thirty-four documented deployments of robots to disasters that include the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and numerous mining accidents.
Search and Rescue Robotics
Robin R. Murphy,Satoshi Tadokoro,Daniele Nardi,Adam Jacoff,Paolo Fiorini,Howie Choset,Aydan M. Erkmen +6 more
TL;DR: This chapter will cover the basic characteristics of disasters and their impact on robotic design, describe the robots actually used in disasters to date, promising robot designs, methods of evaluation in benchmarks for rescue robotics, and conclude with a discussion of the fundamental problems and open issues facing rescue robotics.
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Deployment of mobile robots with energy and timing constraints
TL;DR: A speed-management method is proposed to decide the traveling speeds to maximize the traveling distance under both energy and timing constraints, and a approach to consider areas with random obstacles is provided.
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Human-robot interactions during the robot-assisted urban search and rescue response at the World Trade Center
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TL;DR: The World Trade Center (WTC) rescue response provided an unfortunate opportunity to study the human-robot interactions (HRI) during a real unstaged rescue for the first time as mentioned in this paper, which resulted in 17 findings on the impact of the environment and conditions on the HRI: skills displayed and needed by robots and humans, details of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) task, the social informatics in the USAR domain, and what information is communicated at what time.