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Urban Search and Rescue (USAR)

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Application Description:

Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) workers have 48 hours to find trapped survivors in a collapsed structure, otherwise the likelihood of finding victims still alive in nearly zero. Earthquake disaster mitigation requires rapid and efficient search and rescue of survivors. Snake robots have many more degrees of freedom than conventional robots and rescue machinery, while at the same time have a small cross-sectional area. These many degrees of freedom enable snake robots to thread through tightly packed volumes reaching locations otherwise inaccessible to conventional robots and people, while at the same time, not disturbing the surrounding areas. This is critical in search and rescue operations where large pieces of debris become fragile make-shift support structures.

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Personnel:

Biorobotics Deployment Team:

Howie Choset
H. Benjamin Brown
Alon Wolf
Elie Shammas
Randy Casciola
Michael Schwerin
Jason Geist

Howie Choset Elie Shammas Michael Schwerin Jason Geist
Robin Murphy Sam Stover

Deployments:
Lebanon - Indiana	Team Members: Howie Choset, Alon Wolf, and Mike Schwerin Date: Pictures:
Task Force I - New Jersy	Team Members: Howie Choset, Elie Shammas, Mike Schwerin, and Jason Geist Date: March 2004 Pictures
Nasa Ames - California	Team Members: Howie Choset, Elie Shammas, Mike Schwerin, and Jason Geist Date: May 2004 Pictures Report

Related Topics :


Retract-like structures for Euclidian Spaces	Snake Robot Design	Snake Robot Motion Planning	Bridge Inspection with Serpentine Robots

Publications:

Towards Sensor Based Planning for highly articulated robots
Mobile Robotics
Hyper-redundant Robotics

Movies:

Snoopy inspecting mock-up rubble [.wmv]
JPL inspecting moch-up rubble [.avi]