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oapen-20.500.12657-492202021-11-23T13:58:33Z Chapter Introduction to the Use of Robotic Tools for Search and Rescue De Cubber, Geert Doroftei, Daniela Roda, Rui Silva, Eduardo Ourevitch, Stephane Matos, Anibal Berns, Karsten Serrano, Daniel Sanchez, Jose Bedkowski, Janusz Govindaraj, Shashank Rudin, Konrad robotics, search and rescue, crisis management, disaster management bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare & social services::JKSW Emergency services::JKSW3 Ambulance & rescue services Modern search and rescue workers are equipped with a powerful toolkit to address natural and man-made disasters. This introductory chapter explains how a new tool can be added to this toolkit: robots. The use of robotic assets in search and rescue operations is explained and an overview is given of the worldwide efforts to incorporate robotic tools in search and rescue operations. Furthermore, the European Union ICARUS project on this subject is introduced. The ICARUS project proposes to equip first responders with a comprehensive and integrated set of unmanned search and rescue tools, to increase the situational awareness of human crisis managers, such that more work can be done in a shorter amount of time. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground, and sea vehicles, equipped with victim-detection sensors. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communicating via ad hoc cognitive radio networking. To ensure optimal human-robot collaboration, these tools are seamlessly integrated into the command and control equipment of the human crisis managers and a set of training and support tools is provided to them to learn to use the ICARUS system. 2021-06-02T10:09:46Z 2021-06-02T10:09:46Z 2017 chapter ONIX_20210602_10.5772/intechopen.69489_334 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49220 eng application/pdf n/a 56152.pdf InTechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.69489 10.5772/intechopen.69489 09f6769d-48ed-467d-b150-4cf2680656a1 FP7-SEC-2011-1 285417 open access
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Modern search and rescue workers are equipped with a powerful toolkit to address natural and man-made disasters. This introductory chapter explains how a new tool can be added to this toolkit: robots. The use of robotic assets in search and rescue operations is explained and an overview is given of the worldwide efforts to incorporate robotic tools in search and rescue operations. Furthermore, the European Union ICARUS project on this subject is introduced. The ICARUS project proposes to equip first responders with a comprehensive and integrated set of unmanned search and rescue tools, to increase the situational awareness of human crisis managers, such that more work can be done in a shorter amount of time. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground, and sea vehicles, equipped with victim-detection sensors. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communicating via ad hoc cognitive radio networking. To ensure optimal human-robot collaboration, these tools are seamlessly integrated into the command and control equipment of the human crisis managers and a set of training and support tools is provided to them to learn to use the ICARUS system.
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