Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jan 7, 2025
This study focuses on improving coordination among teams of heterogeneous robots, including unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles, drawing inspiration from natural pack-hunting strategies. The goal is to increase the effectiveness of ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
May 20, 2024
The large number and scale of natural and man-made disasters have led to an urgent demand for technologies that enhance the safety and efficiency of search and rescue teams. Semi-autonomous rescue robots are beneficial, especially when searching inac...
PloS one
Mar 30, 2023
Search algorithm plays an important role in the motion planning of the robot, it determines whether the mobile robot complete the task. To solve the search task in complex environments, a fusion algorithm based on the Flower Pollination algorithm and...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 21, 2022
The roles of emergency responders are challenging and often physically demanding, so it is essential that their duties are performed safely and effectively. In this article, we address real-time bio-signal sensor monitoring for responders in disaster...
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Jun 30, 2022
Robotics have important applications in the field of disaster medical rescue. The deployment of urban rescue robots at the earthquake site can help shorten response time, improve rescue efficiency and keep rescue personnel away from danger. This disc...
ISA transactions
Apr 21, 2022
In economic investment, the role of forecasting is very important because in an economic project, the investor must carefully examine the dimensions of the work such that one of the most important and perhaps the main factor of a future investor and ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 25, 2021
Cloud robotics and advanced communications can foster a step-change in cooperative robots and hybrid wireless sensor networks (H-WSN) for demanding environments (e.g., disaster response, mining, demolition, and nuclear sites) by enabling the timely s...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 4, 2021
Technological breakthroughs in recent years have led to a revolution in fields such as Machine Vision and Search and Rescue Robotics (SAR), thanks to the application and development of new and improved neural networks to vision models together with m...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sep 13, 2020
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), equipped with a variety of sensors, are being used to provide actionable information to augment first responders' situational awareness in disaster areas for urban search and rescue (SaR) operations. However, existing...
BMC emergency medicine
Jun 10, 2015
BACKGROUND: Major incidents are complex, dynamic and bewildering task environments characterised by simultaneous, rapidly changing events, uncertainty and ill-structured problems. Efficient management, communication, decision-making and allocation of...