Rescue Robotics DDT Project on Robots and Systems for Urban Search and Rescue /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tadokoro, Satoshi. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Emergency medicine.; Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Control engineering systems.; Biomedical engineering.; Control , Robotics, Mechatronics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Emergency Services.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Biomedical Engineering.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-474-4

Rescue Robotics presents the most significant products of the DDT Project on robots and systems for urban search and rescue. This project was launched by the Japanese government in 2002 with the aim of applying a wide variety of robotics technologies to find a solution to the problem of disaster res...

Table of Contents:

• Earthquake Disaster and Expectation for Robotics
• An Overview of DDT Project
• Disaster Information Gathering Aerial Robot Systems
• Information Infrastructure for Rescue Systems
• In-rubble Robot System for USAR under Debris
• On-rubble Robot System in DDT Project
• Design Guidelines for Human Interface for Rescue Robots
• Information Sharing and Integration Framework among Rescue Robots/Information Systems
• Demonstrative Experiments on Rescue Search Robots and On-scenario Training in Practical Field with First Responders
• Summary of DDT Project, Unsolved Problems, and Future Roadmap.