Disaster robotics / Robin R. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Robin, 1957- author.

Series:

Intelligent robotics and autonomous agents.

Intelligent robotics and autonomous agents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robots in search and rescue operations.

Mobile robots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book acts as a guide to the theory and practice of disaster robotics. It can serve as an introduction for researchers and technologists, a reference for emergency managers, and a textbook in field robotics. After an overview of rescue robotics in the context of emergency informatics, it provides a chronological summary and formal analysis of the thirty-four documented deployments of robots to disasters that include the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and numerous mining accidents. It then examines disaster robotics in the typical robot modalities of ground, air, and marine, addressing topics of: robot types, missions and tasks, and selection heuristics for each modality. The book also discusses types of fieldwork, providing advice on matters that include collecting data and collaborating with emergency professionals. -- Edited summary from book.

Contents:

Known deployments and performance

Unmanned ground vehicles

Unmanned aerial vehicles

Unmanned marine vehicles

Conducting fieldwork.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-32131-9

0-262-32130-0

OCLC:

870272845