This chapter describes the development of an embedded platform constituting the core of an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) system. High level components include an embedded computer, network camera, supervisory module and wireless gateway. A distributed high efficiency power supply complements the low consumption of system components. Innovative design solutions have resulted in a compact, inexpensive and efficient embedded platform for robotic USAR.
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Williamson, D.A., Carnegie, D.A. (2007). Toward Hierarchical Multi-Robot Urban Search and Rescue: Development of a ‘Mother’ Agent. In: Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Gupta, G.S. (eds) Autonomous Robots and Agents. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73424-6_1
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