Application of Active Scope Camera to forensic investigation of construction accident

Proceedings of the 10th Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop

2010

This paper summarizes the recommended additions to standards being developed by the ASTM E54.08 Homeland Security committee from the NSF-JST-NIST Workshop on Rescue Robotics held at Texas A&M, March 8-11, 2010, concurrently with the NIST Response Robot Evaluation Exercise #6. The 50 workshop participants represented sixteen universities in the USA, Japan, and China. Over a dozen land, marine, and aerial vehicles were tested at Disaster City R . The workshop produced two recommendations for standards for unmanned ground vehicles, four for small unmanned aerial systems, and two for unmanned marine vehicles, as well as proposed four topics for human-robot interaction evaluation. The eight recommendations were presented at the ASTM meeting on March 12, 2010, although test methods have not been developed or proposed for each new topic. The participants also identified four new classes of standards: tethers, damage to the environment, victim management, and multi-robot coordination and collaboration.

Section: Small Diameter Voidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proposals for New UGV, UMV, UAV, and HRI standards for rescue robots

Proceedings of the 10th Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop

2010

“…CRASAR deployed an Inuktun VGTV in December 2007 to the collapse of the Berkman Plaza II parking garage to assist in the search of a missing worker, and then with the International Rescue Systems Institute (IRS) deployed a Active Scope Camera ground robot, an Inuktun VGTV tracked robot and an iSENSYS IP3 miniature helicopter to assist with the recovery (structural forensic inspection) [6].…”

Section: Deployments Shown In Videomentioning

confidence: 99%

A decade of rescue robots

2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

2012

This video offers a retrospective of the 26 disasters where land, marine, or aerial robots have been deployed, starting with the first use of rescue robots at the 2001 World Trade Center Collapse and continuing through the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami/Fukushima nuclear event. While robots have not found a living survivor, possibly because they arrive on average 4.5 days after the event, the video clips illustrate the contributions of robots to searching for survivors, reconnaissance and mapping, inspection of buildings, and inspection of bridges and shipping channels. The clips also highlight four open research questions: human-robot interaction, mobile manipulation, reliable wireless networks, and obstacle avoidance for UAVs and UMVs. Use of robots is accelerating and their contributions to disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery will grow and lead to new challenges for research.

“…Metrics for small diameter voids would permit evaluation of newer snake-like robots, including the Active Scope Camera successfully used at the 2007 Berkman Plaza II collapse. [1] The motivation for vertical mobility and perception standards stems from experiences with responders having to enter from the top of the rubble. As described in [2], three robot deployments (the World Trade Center [3], the Midas Nevada Gold [4] and Crandall Canyon Utah mine [4] disasters) required robots to be inserted from above and rappel down to the points of interest.…”

Section: Recommendations For Astm Standards: Ugvsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Findings from NSF-JST-NIST Workshop on Rescue Robotics

2010 IEEE Safety Security and Rescue Robotics

2010

This paper summarizes the findings and observations from the NSF-JST-NIST Workshop on Rescue Robotics held at Texas A&M, March 8-11, 2010. The 50 workshop participants represented sixteen universities in the USA, Japan, and China. Over a dozen land, marine, and aerial vehicles were tested using the Response Robot Evaluation Exercise #6 or in more scenario-oriented testing at Disaster City R . The workshop produced nine recommendations for standards for unmanned vehicles as well as proposed four topics for human-robot interaction evaluation. While the workshop generated tangible contributions to the ASTM Standards meeting and individual research programs, the workshop illustrated the benefits of interacting with more responders, robots, and other researchers than has been previously available to the community.