Rescue robots

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Horizon oil spill, as underwater explorer robots equipped with cameras were able to send images of the damaged oil well as well as reports on how repairs were proceeding. Thermal-imaging cameras can also identify regions on fire even as they allow rescue robots to seek out injured humans trapped in fires or under rubble. 

Rescue robots seek out, pick up, and safely carry injured humans trapped in fires, under rubble, or in dangerous battle zones. For example, the U.S. Army s Bear (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot) is a bipedal robot that can climb stairs, wedge itself through narrow spaces, and clamber over bumpy terrain while carrying weights of up to three hundred pounds. 

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Task allocation for multiple robots addresses the problem of assigning a set of tasks to the corresponding robots while achieving some specific objectives of team performance. Research in this field dates back to the late 1980s. Task allocation of multiple robots in dynamic environments is core to multi-robot control for a number of real-world applications, such as military [1], transport services [2], search and rescue [3], etc. 

Robots in their essence have the purpose to replace human labor, not only in industrial applicatiOTis but also in other human activities. There are many applicaticHis connected to robotics, as for example in medicine, rescue operations, research, aiding the disabled people, etc. In order to fulfill the requirements of everyday life, robotic systems are inevitably becoming more and more sophisticated. The level of complexity demands novel or different research perspectives to be considered. 

Cooperative robotics has been motivating substantial research work since several years [1,2,3]. It is a useful approach to many practical robotic applications for both military and civil purposes, from search and rescue in catastrophic situations, to demining or maneuvers in contaminated areas. 

Stopforth, R., Holtzhausen, S., Bright, G., Hale, N. S., Kumile, C. M. (2008). Robots for search and rescue purposes in urban and underwater environment-A survey and comparison. [IEEE.]. 

Mobile robots have been found to be useful for a number of applieations sueh as eombat (Yam-auehi, 2004 Barnes, Everett, Rudakevych, 2005), oeeanography (Bellingham R an, 2007), space exploration (Bellingham Rajan, 2007 Halberstam, et al., 2006 Sehreekenghost, Fong, Milam, 2008), as well as seareh and rescue. 

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Doroodgar, B., Ficocelli, M., Mobedi, B., Negat, G. (2010). The search for survivors Cooperative human-robot itneraction in search and rescue environments using semi-autonomous robots. In Proceedings ofthelEEEIntemational Conference on Robotics and Automation, (pp. 2858-5863). IEEE Press. 

Shiroma, N., Chiu, Y. H., Sato, N., Mat-suno, F. (2005). Cooperative task execution of a search and rescue mission by a multi-robot team. Advanced Robotics, 19(3), 311-329. doi 10.1163/1568553053583670... 

Mobile robots are useful in human rescue, hazardous environments, and tight spaces, which are inaccessible to humans. In general, robotic vehicles move autonomously with sensors and computing resources that guide their movement (Bekey, 2008), e g. Mobile Robots for Offshore Inspection and Manipulation (Bengel, 2012). 

Current work at NASA s Johnson Space Center is developing an autonomous robot to perform tasks such as object rescue and retrieval, space shuttle experimentation, satellite repair, and space station construction. Dexterous end effectors with sensors can help the robot perform this large variety of tasks. 

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