Intelligence Search and Rescue Robots Introductions and overview of the system Intelligence Search and Rescue Robots is a domain where robots can make difference for assisting the rescuers covers a large part of the robotic and artificial intelligence research themes. For example, robots may be able to enter disaster sites which are too difficult or too dangerous for humans to get into. Once there, robots can gather information about the situation, providing human operators with video feeds, maps, and sensor data. Using this information, humans might be able to make a better situation assessment, to aid emergency management. The design of systems that are suitable for this type of applications involves different research areas, from mechanical design and sensors interpretation to perception, decision making, mapping, path-planning and victim detection. The great losses in lives caused by such tragedies have demonstrated the need for the development of robotic aids to assist rescue workers in such time-critical and life risking undertakings .Urban disaster environments have been known to be very difficult to access by rescue workers of Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) missions due to the potential presence of asbestos, dust, poisonous gases, hazardous materials, radiation or extreme temperatures. Rescue robots provide a promising solution to assist rescue workers in terms of: Reducing personal risk to workers and rescue dogs by entering unstable structures. Increasing speeds of response by penetrating ordinarily inaccessible voids. Through the use of multiple cameras and sensor fusion in order to extend the reach of rescue workers to regions that are otherwise inaccessible. Techniques or methodologies employed in the system... ... middle of paper ... ...irs and navigate over uneven terrain. Others have focused on the development of high-level semi-autonomous control strategies that enable sharing of exploration and victim identification tasks between a rescue robot and an operator to minimize operator workload. Teamwork is a crucial component of rescue robot deployment, whether it is human-robot cooperation or multi-robot coordination. Furthermore, real-time task allocations techniques are needed, to distribute tasks to rescue robots in a team in order to have multiple robots work effectively together to achieve the rescue tasks at hand. The development and incorporation of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms will also allow a single robot, robot teams and human-robot teams to develop 3D maps of USAR scenes in order to locate victims within these cluttered environments. References
Team is a noun describing a number of people associated in some joint project. In other words teams are a group of people working towards one goal. All great teams require communication and need to go above and beyond and make bold steps forward. Some great teams that embody these traits are the group of teenagers from Carl Hayden High School and the Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak duo. How these teams worked together are shown in “La Vida Robot” and the biography Steve Jobs. In them Davis and Isaacson show that a strong team depends on its members to take risks and that communication is vital for a strong and effective team.
There are five different mission sets that the teams work in. They are Emergency Response, Remediation and Restoration, Technical Escort of materials, Technical Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear support to COCOMs and Homeland Security. Emergency Response is one of the primary m...
In conclusion, I believe people should not have the right to get rescued when they put themselves at risk. Rescuers end up dying in an attempt to save people since they didn’t make a smart move. Traffic jams delay climbers, causing them to die, and inexperienced climbers are given a false sense of security from helicopters. Therefore, I believe that individuals should not have the privilege to call for a rescuer, in their time
Teamwork can not be done alone; it’s distributed to different people who assist in different ways.
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The Technical Escort Unit (TEU) now provides the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to include the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an immediate response capability for chemical and biological warfare material. Its mission is to provide a global response for escorting, packaging, detection, rendering-safe, disposing, sampling, analytics, and remediation missions. This does not only include chemical weapons for which it was originally created, but now incorporates biological weapons, state sponsored laboratories, small independent laboratories and small non-weaponized radioactive materials. Most recently, they have been task organized to assist Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) as a force multiplier; the objective of this is to give the Battle Field Commander instant on the ground intelligence regarding Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) hazards within their Area of Operations (AO). With this new mission with the BCT, the TEU is becoming an expeditionary force.
Several military robotic automation systems already operate at the level where the human is still in charge and responsible for the deployment of lethal force, but not in a directly supervisory manner. The Phalanx system for Aegis-class cruisers in the Navy is designed to be the last line of defense against anti-ship missiles. The gun mount moves with rapid precision. The system takes a low amount of input from the ship, making it capable of functioning despite potential damage to the ship. There are several settings for the Phalanx system, with the final fail safe setting of “casualty” that will defend the ship from air attacks without human selection of targets. The MK 69 encapsulated torpedo (CAPTOR) sea mine system was the U.S. Navy's standard anti-submarine mine during the Cold War, having enough computer power t...
The mentioned intelligence problem is just one of the robotics problems that waiting for psychologists to solve and most of them are important for building the advanced AI. These are some representative combined topics for robotics and psychology to build the Strong
Scientific progress makes huge milestones toward developing new advanced technologies which are more and more present in human lives. Today robots replace people in many spheres such as health care, security and military, industry, education, entertainment and science. Role of robots becomes more significant because they are able to do the job which people are not able to perform well. Sometimes people are too lazy to do some routine work, due to such situation those tasks could be delegated to machines. People’s life become more technology based what makes demand for efficient robots larger. Engineers say that today robots look like machines, but in near future robots will have more human appearance, today they do some simple job, but in near future much more complicated tasks would be trusted to them. History of robotics goes far to the history when the ancient Greeks describes first devices that people were projected to fly to the sky like birds. In fact, heart of any robot is some program that direct the device and control it actions. Robot cannot perform the tasks that was not programmed in it and this if the factor what makes it quite limited in its actions. Current studies in robotics are aimed to remove those disadvantages and make robots more functional and universal through development of artificial intelligence that can operate independently. Curiosity of world community to robotics increase every day what make all the research and inventions in robotics more demanded. History of robots, resent achievement and future perspectives of robotics have to be studies and researched to understand what machines can give to humanity and what pros and cons exist in the r...
The approach to artificial intelligence should be proceeded with caution. Throughout recent years and even decades before, it has been a technological dream to produce artificial intelligence. From movies, pop culture, and recent technological advancements, there is an obsession with robotics and their ability to perform actions that require human intelligence. Artificial intelligence has become a real and approachable realization today, but should be approached with care and diligence. Humans can create advanced artificial intelligence but should not because of the harm they may cause, the monumental advancement needed in the technology, and that its harm outweighs its benefits.
Social media has become both popular and crucial in crisis and emergency communications. Responders are not only communicating to their public through social media outlets, the public is communicating with each other, and with responders. Individuals are able to provide important information on disaster impacts, including location and imagery, using nothing more than a smartphone equipped with a camera and GPS locator. One particular technology from Ushahidi offers an interesting way for responders and affected individuals to communicate with one another in the course of a disaster response. The Ushahidi BRCK offers an application of technology that, while not originally designed for use in the emergency management field, has an application in the response to a disaster. This and other technologies contribute to the ever changing way responders and individuals communicate.
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Robots always had a special place in mankind’s heart. There has always been an aura of mystery and discovery surrounding them. What is a robot? Wikipedia defines it as “an automatically guided machine which is able to do tasks on its own.” That is a good definition of a robot, but there are few exceptions too.
In case of emergencies, robots could reduce the percentage of fatal damages that occurs through these cases. In fact, humans’ lives are much valuable and precious rather than robots, in which societies could use robots to scarify through the dangerous situation for the sake of rescuing people. In addition, dangerous situations such as firefighting or earthquake require much effort, precision, and scarifying in the evacuation process. Furthermore, a beneficial feature that could help robots to coexist through the risky situations easily and preform the rescuing mission perfectly is that robots do not have feelings or emotions. According to Bruemmer (2006), robots do not have the ability to realize or notify any aspect that people do not programmed them to do. In other words, robots are merely machines that cannot feel or recognize what surrounding them without a sophisticated program done by humans. Therefore, as robots do not have the ability of feeling or knowing they could go through inhumane conditions for saving people. Moreover, robots have various capabilities that make them unique enable them to do heavy duties and bear more serio...