• DocumentCode
    393591
  • Title

    Rescue robot contest as a foundation for construction of rescue engineering

  • Author

    Osuka, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Kyoto Univ., Japan
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    5-7 Aug. 2002
  • Firstpage
    344
  • Abstract
    In every year and in all over the world, we have great disasters such as earthquakes or flood disasters, etc. In 1995, there was a great earthquake in the Kansai region in Japan. After the earthquake, the researches on the rescue system were initiated. In this paper, we discuss a new engineering field, named rescue engineering. The aim of this field is to provide a backup to the researches of rescue systems, and to backup the construction of the rescue engineering. We propose a new robot contest which deals with the rescue activity. This contest is called the rescue robot contest.
  • Keywords
    disasters; earthquakes; robots; Japan; RESCON; disasters; earthquakes; flood; rescue engineering; rescue robot contest; Appropriate technology; Artificial intelligence; Automatic control; Cameras; Cities and towns; Earthquake engineering; Floods; Large-scale systems; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SICE 2002. Proceedings of the 41st SICE Annual Conference
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7631-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SICE.2002.1195419
  • Filename
    1195419