Special project on development of advanced robots for disaster response (DDT project)

Author

Tadokoro, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Int. Rescue Syst. Inst., Kobe, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

12-15 June 2005

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

72

Abstract

Natural and man-made disasters are serious problems in every country. Robotics, intelligent machines, systems and devices are highly expected as effective solutions in the future. Special project on development of advanced robots for disaster response (DDT Project) is focused on R&D of robotic solutions for reconnaissance of victim bodies, structural damage and environmental conditions to assist rescue parties in large-scale urban earthquake disasters. This paper introduces an overview of this project and the problem domain of earthquake disasters, search-and-rescue processes and rubble pile characteristics.

Keywords

disasters; earthquakes; emergency services; mobile robots; research and development; DDT project; advanced robot; disaster response; environmental condition; intelligent machine; man-made disaster; natural disaster; research and development; robotics; rubble pile characteristics; search-and-rescue process; structural damage; urban earthquake disaster; victim bodies; Collaborative work; Earthquakes; Floods; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Large-scale systems; Machine intelligence; Reconnaissance; Research and development; Storms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, 2005. IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8947-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ARSO.2005.1511621

Filename

1511621