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Search and Rescue Robotics

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In order to summarize the status of rescue robotics, this chapter will cover the basic characteristics of disasters and their impact on robotic design, describe the robots actually used in disasters to date, promising robot designs (e.g., snakes, legged locomotion) and concepts (e.g., robot teams or swarms, sensor networks), methods of evaluation in benchmarks for rescue robotics, and conclude with a discussion of the fundamental problems and open issues facing rescue robotics, and their evolution from an interesting idea to widespread adoption. The Chapter will concentrate on the rescue phase, not recovery, with the understanding that capabilities for rescue can be applied to, and extended for, the recovery phase. The use of robots in the prevention and preparedness phases of disaster management are outside the scope of this chapter.

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Abbreviations

AAAI:

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

CCD:

charge-coupled devices

DARPA:

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

GPS:

global positioning system

HRI:

human–robot interaction

IEEE:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

MTBF:

mean time between failure

SLAM:

simultaneous localization and mapping

UAV:

unmanned aerial vehicles

UGV:

unmanned ground vehicle

US:

ultrasound

USV:

unmanned surface vehicle

UUV:

unmanned underwater vehicles

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave ENB342, 33620-5399, Tampa, FL, USA

    Robin R. Murphy PhD

  2. Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-6-01 Aoba-yama, 980-8579, Sendai, Japan

    Satoshi Tadokoro Prof

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica ” A. Ruberti„, Università degli Studi di Roma ” La Sapienza„, Via Ariosto 25, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Daniele Nardi Prof

  4. Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, 20899, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    Adam Jacoff MS

  5. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Verona, Strada le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Paolo Fiorini PhD

  6. The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Howie Choset Prof

  7. Department of Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

    Aydan M. Erkmen Prof

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Murphy, R.R. et al. (2008). Search and Rescue Robotics. In: Siciliano, B., Khatib, O. (eds) Springer Handbook of Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30301-5_51

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