Title :
Proposal of new engineering field: rescue engineering
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Sci., Kyoto Univ., Japan
Abstract :
In this note, we consider natural disasters and protection against disasters. Then, we discuss rescue activities from a viewpoint of robotics, and consider the development of a new field of engineering, rescue engineering
Keywords :
civil engineering; disasters; earthquakes; emergency services; mobile robots; disaster protection; natural disasters; rescue engineering; robotics; Cities and towns; Earthquake engineering; Proposals; Protection; Rain; Robots; Snow; Tsunami; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2000. (IROS 2000). Proceedings. 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Takamatsu
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6348-5
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2000.895279
