Issues in intelligent robots for search and rescue Conference Paper

abstract

• Since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and Kobe, Japan, earthquake, robotics researchers have been considering search and rescue as a humanitarian research domain. The recent devastation in Turkey and Taiwan, compounded with the new Robocup Rescue and AAAI Urban Search and Rescue robot competition, may encourage more research. However, roboticists generally do not have access to domain experts: the emergency workers or `first providers'. This paper shares our understanding of urban search and rescue, based on our active research in this area and training sessions with rescue workers from the Hillsborough County (Florida) Fire Departments. The paper is intended to be a stepping stone for roboticists entering the field.

name of conference

• Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology II

authors

• Murphy, Robin

published proceedings

• Proceedings of SPIE

author list (cited authors)

• Casper, J. L., Micire, M., & Murphy, R. R.

complete list of authors

• Casper, Jennifer L||Micire, Mark||Murphy, Robin R

editor list (cited editors)

• Gerhart, G. R., Gunderson, R. W., & Shoemaker, C. M.

publisher

• SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of SPIE  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4006 Communications Engineering
• 4009 Electronics, Sensors And Digital Hardware
• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1117/12.391640

start page

• 292

end page

• 302

volume

• 4024