Title :
A proposal of user friendly alive human detection robot to tackle crisis situation
Author :
Chowdhury, Shuvro ; Rafiq, Muhammad
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., American Int. Univ., Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract :
Earthquakes, firefighting, bomb blasting, landslides, cyclones, floods are some of the natural disasters keep making us realize that there is no power bigger than that of the nature around us. With the evolution of science and technology at an uncontrolled pace, and the creation of sky scraper buildings and dwellings and encroachments everywhere, the risks of losing life due to such calamities has all the more increased and added to the chaos. Moreover, with the advancement in nuclear technology, the risks of manmade calamities like nuclear explosions and nuclear radiation leaks have also reached an all-time high. Many people get killed instantly due to these natural and manmade disasters when they hit a region. Many others get trapped under debris for hours and days because their presence there cannot be detected by the rescue teams easily. Hence, they die a painful death as help could not reach them on time. The rescue team workers cannot enter certain parts in such calamity hit zones. And if they do, a rescue worker may end up being a victim himself. For these reasons and others in this paper, we are discussing about a alive human detection robot.
Keywords :
disasters; emergency management; human computer interaction; human-robot interaction; mobile robots; robot vision; service robots; bomb blasting; crisis situation; cyclones; earthquakes; firefighting; floods; landslides; manmade calamities; manmade disasters; natural disasters; nuclear explosions; nuclear radiation leaks; nuclear technology; rescue team workers; sky scraper buildings; user friendly alive human detection robot; Collision avoidance; Delay; Educational institutions; Humans; Random access memory; Robot sensing systems; Alive Human Detection; GPS system; PIR sensor; micro-controller;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2012 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
JeJu Island
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2247-8