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10/31/08 2008 TCIP ([email protected])

Use of Robots in Rescue

Operations

Dr. Robin Murphy Raytheon Professor of Computer Science

Director, Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue

Texas A&M University

With special thanks to Dr. Jeffery Kravitz & Rod Gust (MSHA), Sam

Stover, Dr. Satoshi Tadokoro, Jacksonville Fire Rescue, Bracken

Engineering, Newmont Mining

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CRASAR Responses

•! World Trade Center (01),

Jacksonville Collapse (07)

•! Hurricanes Charley (04), Dennis

(05), Katrina (05), Wilma (05)

•! La Conchita Mudslides (05)

•! Midas Nevada Gold Mine (07),

Crandall Canyon Coal Mine (07)

Midas Gold Mine (NV) Incident

Crandall Canyon Mine (UT) Incident

Jacksonville (FL) Collapse Plus ~20 exercises

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Use of Rescue Robots in US


Disaster Deployment UAV UGV USV 2001 World Trade Center, New

York, USF Man-packable

man-portable

2005 La Conchita, California

mudslides, USF man-packable

2005 Hurricane Katrina, USA Man-packable

fixed-wing Man-packable

Man-packable

rotary-wing

2005 Hurricane Rita, USA Maxi fixed-

wing

2005 Hurricane Wilma, USA Maxi fixed-

wing

2006 Sago Mine, West Virginia,

USA Maxi

2007 Midas Nevada Gold Mine,

USA

man-packable

man-portable 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine,

Utah, USA man-packable

2007 Berkman Plaza II Collapse,

Jacksonville FL, USA

tethered

rotary-wing man-packable

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man-portable





Man-packable

rotary-wing


wing


wing


USA Maxi


USA

man-packable





tethered


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man-portable





Man-packable

rotary-wing


wing


wing


USA Maxi


USA

man-packable





tethered


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Midas Gold Mine Floor Cave In



First Robot: Allen-Vanguard

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Risks

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Second Robot: Inuktun

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Example Void Entry:

Midas Nevada Gold Mine

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man-portable





Man-packable

rotary-wing


wing


wing


USA Maxi


USA

man-packable





tethered


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Borehole Entry

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Risks

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Example of Borehole Entry:

Crandall Canyon

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man-portable





Man-packable

rotary-wing


wing


wing


USA Maxi


USA

man-packable





tethered


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Berkman Plaza II Collapse


Active Scope Camera


Useful for

•! Search and rescue

•! Determining aggregate

types

•! Presence of shoring

structures

•! Density of structural elements


Take Home Lessons

•! Bomb squad and rescue robots may not be

interchangeable

•! Sensors will always get muddy, there won’t be

enough light, or there will be dust and smoke

•! Size matters- smaller is better

•! Good interfaces are a must


Growing Research Community


Application Area

Urban Wilderness Underground

Mine Forest Fire CBRNE

Task

Search Mapping Rubble

removal

Structural

inspection

Medical

assessment

Victim

extraction Repeater Surrogate Shoring Logistics

support

Robot Subsystem

Mobility Sensors Comms Control Power

Systems

Human-Robot

Interaction Teams Efficiency Reliabililty

We’ve Been Trying to Reuse Robots

Really Designed for Other Apps


GOVT

AGENCY

One Size

Fits All

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Come Join Us!

•! Disaster City

•! Full Emergency Operations Center

•! Train 81,000 fire rescue, law

enforcement, secret service per year

•! 35 Faculty active in emergency

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