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Three underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) were used over a five day period to inspect critical infrastructure and to assist with victim search and recovery at six sites in the Iwate Prefecture following the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Unmanned marine vehicles have been used since 2004 for disaster recovery operations but in limited applications, in single areas, and in short deployment...
This paper presents a field report and summarizes the problems of the appliance of rescue robots during the Collapse of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne. Two robots where on the field, ready to be applied: A shoe-box size tracked mobile robot (VGTV Xtreme) and a caterpillar like system (Active Scope Camera). Due to the special type of collapse and design limitations of the robots, both...
This video captures human-robot interaction which occurred during an evaluation of a novel, snake-like search and rescue robot assisting with victim management. Most of the observations confirmed previous findings- That a 2∶1 H-R ratio ratio is appropriate, Team coordination is enhanced by shared visual perception, and Poor interfaces continue to lead to incomplete coverage. However, the victims responded...
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