Study of efficiency of USAR operations with assistive technologies

Hamp, Quirin; Gorgis, Omar; Labenda, Patrick; Neumann, Marc; Predki, Thomas; Heckes, Leif; Kleiner, Alexander; Reindl, L.

doi:10.1080/01691864.2013.763723

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“…One of these efforts is Neptus, a C3I (Command, Control, Communication and Information) framework, which aims to support coordinated operation of heterogeneous teams, including several types of UVs and human beings [2]. Another example is the German project I-LOV, which establishes a framework for integration of mobile platforms into a victim search mission [3]. Numerous attempts to use robotic systems in crisis situations were made: the 2001 World Trade Center attack [4], the 2004 earthquake in Mid Niigata, the 2005 USA hurricanes [5] or the 2011 Japan tsunami.…”

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ICARUS Training and Support System

Bedkowski¹,

Majek²,

Pełka³

et al. 2017

Search and Rescue Robotics - From Theory to Practice

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The ICARUS unmanned tools act as gatherers, which acquire enormous amount of information. The management of all these data requires the careful consideration of an intelligent support system. This chapter discusses the High-Performance Computing (HPC) support tools, which were developed for rapid 3D data extraction, combination, fusion, segmentation, classification and rendering. These support tools were seamlessly connected to a training framework. Indeed, training is a key in the world of search and rescue. Search and rescue workers will never use tools on the field for which they have not been extensively trained beforehand. For this reason, a comprehensive serious gaming training framework was developed, supporting all ICARUS unmanned vehicles in realistic 3D-simulated (based on inputs from the support system) and real environments.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

ICARUS Training and Support System

Bedkowski¹,

Majek²,

Pełka³

et al. 2017

Search and Rescue Robotics - From Theory to Practice

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“…One of these efforts is Neptus, a C3I (Command, Control, Communication, and Information) framework, which aims to support coordinated operation of heterogeneous teams, including several types of UVs (unmanned vehicles) and human beings (Dias et al., ). Another example is the German project I‐LOV, which establishes a framework for integration of mobile platforms into a victim search mission (Hamp et al., ). Attempts to use robotic systems were made on many occasions: the 2001 World Trade Center attack (Murphy, ), the 2004 earthquake in Mid Niigata, the 2005 USA hurricanes (Murphy et al., ), or the 2011 Japan tsunami.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A broad overview of the efforts made in this area can be found in Liu & Nejat () and Hamp et al. (). This research effort stands in contrast to the practical reality in the field, where unmanned SAR tools have great difficulty finding their way to the end‐users due to a number of remaining bottlenecks in the practical applicability of unmanned tools (Doroftei, De Cubber, & Chintanami, ).…”

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Integrated Data Management for a Fleet of Search‐and‐rescue Robots

Balta

Bedkowski

Govindaraj

et al. 2016

Journal of Field Robotics

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Search‐and‐rescue operations have recently been confronted with the introduction of robotic tools that assist the human search‐and‐rescue workers in their dangerous but life‐saving job of searching for human survivors after major catastrophes. However, the world of search and rescue is highly reliant on strict procedures for the transfer of messages, alarms, data, and command and control over the deployed assets. The introduction of robotic tools into this world causes an important structural change in this procedural toolchain. Moreover, the introduction of search‐and‐rescue robots acting as data gatherers could potentially lead to an information overload toward the human search‐and‐rescue workers, if the data acquired by these robotic tools are not managed in an intelligent way. With that in mind, we present in this paper an integrated data combination and data management architecture that is able to accommodate real‐time data gathered by a fleet of robotic vehicles on a crisis site, and we present and publish these data in a way that is easy to understand by end‐users. In the scope of this paper, a fleet of unmanned ground and aerial search‐and‐rescue vehicles is considered, developed within the scope of the European ICARUS project. As a first step toward the integrated data‐management methodology, the different robotic systems require an interoperable framework in order to pass data from one to another and toward the unified command and control station. As a second step, a data fusion methodology will be presented, combining the data acquired by the different heterogenic robotic systems. The computation needed for this process is done in a novel mobile data center and then (as a third step) published in a software as a service (SaaS) model. The SaaS model helps in providing access to robotic data over ubiquitous Ethernet connections. As a final step, we show how the presented data‐management architecture allows for reusing recorded exercises with real robots and rescue teams for training purposes and teaching search‐and‐rescue personnel how to handle the different robotic tools. The system was validated in two experiments. First, in the controlled environment of a military testing base, a fleet of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles was deployed in an earthquake‐response scenario. The data gathered by the different interoperable robotic systems were combined by a novel mobile data center and presented to the end‐user public. Second, an unmanned aerial system was deployed on an actual mission with an international relief team to help with the relief operations after major flooding in Bosnia in the spring of 2014. Due to the nature of the event (floods), no ground vehicles were deployed here, but all data acquired by the aerial system (mainly three‐dimensional maps) were stored in the ICARUS data center, where they were securely published for authorized personnel all over the world. This mission (which is, to our knowledge, the first recorded deployment of an unmanned aerial system by an official governmental i...

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“…One of these efforts is Neptus, a C3I (Command, Control, Communication and Information) framework, which aims to support coordinated operation of heterogeneous teams, including several types of UVs and human beings (Dias, 2006). Another example, is the German project I-LOV, which establishes a framework for integration of mobile platforms into a victim search mission (Hamp, 2013). Numerous attempts to use robotic systems in crisis situations were made: the 2001 World Trade Center attack (Murphy, 2004), the 2004 earthquake in Mid Niigata, the 2005 USA hurricanes (Murphy, 2008), or the 2011 Japan tsunami.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous attempts to use robotic systems in crisis situations were made: the 2001 World Trade Center attack (Murphy, 2004), the 2004 earthquake in Mid Niigata, the 2005 USA hurricanes (Murphy, 2008), or the 2011 Japan tsunami. Paper (Liu and Nejat, 2013) and (Hamp, 2013) give a broad overview of the effort done in this area. This research effort stands in contrast to the practical reality in the field, where unmanned SAR tools have great difficulty finding their way to the endusers, due to a number of remaining bottlenecks in the practical applicability of unmanned tools (Doroftei et al, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Training and Support system in the Cloud for improving the situational awareness in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations

Pełka

Majek

Bedkowski

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (2014)

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In this paper, a Training and Support system for Search and Rescue operations is described. The system is a component of the ICARUS project (http://www.fp7-icarus.eu) which has a goal to develop sensor, robotic and communication technologies for Human Search And Rescue teams. The support system for planning and managing complex SAR operations is implemented as a command and control component that integrates different sources of spatial information, such as maps of the affected area, satellite images and sensor data coming from the unmanned robots, in order to provide a situation snapshot to the rescue team who will make the necessary decisions. Support issues will include planning of frequency resources needed for given areas, prediction of coverage conditions, location of fixed communication relays, etc. The training system is developed for the ICARUS operators controlling UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicles), UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and USVs (Unmanned Surface Vehicles) from a unified Remote Control Station (RC2). The Training and Support system is implemented in SaaS model (Software as a Service). Therefore, its functionality is available over the Ethernet. SAR ICARUS teams from different countries can be trained simultaneously on a shared virtual stage. In this paper we will show the multi-robot 3D mapping component (aerial vehicle and ground vehicles). We will demonstrate that these 3D maps can be used for Training purpose. Finally we demonstrate current approach for ICARUS Urban SAR (USAR) and Marine SAR (MSAR) operation training.

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Study of efficiency of USAR operations with assistive technologies

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

ICARUS Training and Support System

ICARUS Training and Support System

Integrated Data Management for a Fleet of Search‐and‐rescue Robots

Training and Support system in the Cloud for improving the situational awareness in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations

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