Using the ARAIG Haptic Suit to Assist in Navigating Firefighters Out of Hazardous Environments

Laffan, Cassandra Frances; Coleshill, James Elliott; Stanfield, Brodie; Stanfield, Michael; Ferworn, Alexander

doi:10.1109/iemcon51383.2020.9284922

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“…In this project, we continue the work we first presented in [2], where we propose a system for assisting first responders in navigating out of low visibility environments utilizing the ARAIG haptic suit. In order to circumvent various obstacles due to the pandemic and supply chain interruptions, we opt to simulate the ARAIG functionality and path recreation in the digital game Minecraft.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Using our algorithms in more controlled, less noisy real-world environments will allow us to refine these algorithms before we begin integrating them with noisier data such as LiDAR, sonar or a 3D camera data. Finally, we can eventually begin work on integrating these algorithms fully with the physical ARAIG suit and supplementary sensors, as first introduced in [2]. We will then test this technology in a physical burn house as presented in [23].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…From research using specialized equipment to field testing, the past two and a half years have been full of ingenious "workarounds" to both workplace restrictions and material shortages. We feel our current project is no exception: in a time where our research, as introduced in our previous work [2], should be applied to tangible hardware and tested in physical environments, access to our lab and materials is limited. The need for corporeal results is clear and thus, we propose and implement a workaround in this paper.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As touched upon in [2], the field of search and rescue is going to experience various changes over the coming decades. Canada, home to both this project and its researchers, is one of many countries currently feeling the metaphorical and literal heat of climate change's effects [4].…”

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ARAIG and Minecraft: A Modified Simulation Tool

Laffan¹,

Kozin²,

Coleshill³

et al. 2022

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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Various interruptions to the daily lives of researchers have necessitated the usage of simulations in projects which may not have initially relied on anything other than physical inquiry and experiments. The programs and algorithms introduced in this paper, which is an extended version of research initially published in ARAIG And Minecraft: A COVID-19 Workaround, create an optimized search space and egress path to the initial starting point of a user's route using a modification ("mod") of the digital game Minecraft. We initially utilize two approaches for creating a search space with which to find edges in the resulting graph of the user's movement: a naive approach with the time complexity of O(n 2 ) and an octree approach, with the time complexity of O(nlogn). We introduce a basic A* algorithm to search through the resulting graph for the most efficient egress path. We then integrate our mod with the visualization tool for the "As Real As It Gets" (ARAIG) haptic suit, which provides a visual representation of the physical feedback the user would receive if he were to wear it. We finish this paper by asking a group of four users to test this program and their feedback is collected.

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ARAIG and Minecraft: A Modified Simulation Tool

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Kozin²,

Coleshill³

et al. 2022

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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“…In this project, we continue the work we first presented in [11]. We opted to simulate the ARAIG functionality and path recreation in the digital game Minecraft with a mod for the game which integrated the ARAIG simulation software into its functionality.…”

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Getting Out Safe: Navigation Utilizing The ARAIG Suit and Minecraft

Laffan

2024

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<p>This thesis conducts a study into which algorithms and haptic technologies are necessary for assisting first responders in peril. Firefighters run the risk of getting lost and disoriented in unfamiliar emergency environments. This research uses haptic feedback to direct firefighters out of these environments. These haptic instructions are given by the “As Real As It Gets” (ARAIG) suit by IFTech. Due to COVID-19, in order to test these algorithms applied to egress paths, a Minecraft mod is written.</p> <p>The algorithms for creating a pathway of egress include octree construction, insertion and search, and a modified Dijkstra’s algorithm. The resulting reconstructed egress path is used to create physical haptic instructions for the user. These instructions are conveyed to the ARAIG suit. Finally, four users provide feedback on their interactions with the system. This thesis concludes with proposals for future directions for this research to go in.</p>

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Police Training and Use of Force: Methods to Reduce Violent Encounters

Cotton

2022

Understanding and Preventing Community Violence

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Using the ARAIG Haptic Suit to Assist in Navigating Firefighters Out of Hazardous Environments

Cited by 10 publications

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ARAIG and Minecraft: A Modified Simulation Tool

ARAIG and Minecraft: A Modified Simulation Tool

Getting Out Safe: Navigation Utilizing The ARAIG Suit and Minecraft

Police Training and Use of Force: Methods to Reduce Violent Encounters

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