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Rescue robots have been used in at least 28 disasters in six countries since the first deployment to the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse. All types of robots have been used (land, sea, and aerial) and for all phases of a disaster (prevention, response, and recovery). This chapter will cover the basic characteristics of disasters and their impact on robotic design, and describe the robots actually used in disasters to date, with a special focus on Fukushima Daiichi, which is providing a rich proving ground for robotics. The chapter covers promising robot designs (e. g., snakes, legged locomotion) and concepts (e. g., robot teams or swarms, sensor networks), as well as progress and open issues in autonomy. The methods of evaluation in benchmarks for rescue robotics are discussed and the chapter concludes with a discussion of the fundamental problems and open issues facing rescue robotics, and their evolution from an interesting idea to widespread adoption.

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Abbreviations

2-D:

two-dimensional

3-D:

three-dimensional

AAAI:

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

AUV:

autonomous underwater vehicle

CBRNE:

chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, or explosive

CMU:

Carnegie Mellon University

CPU:

central processing unit

CRASAR:

Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue

DHS:

US Department of Homeland Security

GPS:

global positioning system

HRI:

human–robot interaction

IEEE:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

JAEA:

Japan Atomic Energy Agency

MSHA:

US Mine Safety and Health Administration

NASA:

National Aeronautics and Space Agency

NERVE:

New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation

NIST:

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NZDF:

New Zealand Defence Force

OOTL:

human out of the loop control

RFID:

radio frequency identification

ROV:

remotely operated vehicle

SLAM:

simultaneous localization and mapping

SWRI:

Southwest Research Institute

UAV:

unmanned aerial vehicle

UGV:

unmanned ground vehicle

UMV:

unmanned marine vehicle

USAR:

urban search and rescue

USV:

unmanned surface vehicle

UUV:

unmanned underwater vehicle

WTC:

World Trade Center

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