Evaluation of robot deployment in live missions with the military, police, and fire brigade

Carl Lundberg; Roger Reinhold; Henrik I. Christensen

doi:10.1117/12.718345

4 May 2007 Evaluation of robot deployment in live missions with the military, police, and fire brigade

Carl Lundberg, Roger Reinhold, Henrik I. Christensen

Proceedings Volume 6538, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VI; 65380R (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718345
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Robots have been successfully deployed within bomb squads all over the world for decades. Recent technical improvements are increasing the prospects to achieve the same benefits also for other high risk professions. As the number of applications increase issues of collaboration and coordination come into question. Can several groups deploy the same type of robot? Can they deploy the same methods? Can resources be shared? What characterizes the different applications? What are the similarities and differences between different groups? This paper reports on a study of four areas in which robots are already, or are about to be deployed: Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT), Military and Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Military Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear contamination control (CBRN), and Fire Fighting (FF). The aim of the study has been to achieve a general overview across the four areas to survey and compare their similarities and differences. It has also been investigated to what extent it is possible for the them to deploy the same type of robot. It was found that the groups share many requirements, but, that they also have a few individual hard constrains. A comparison across the groups showed the demands of man-portability, ability to access narrow premises, and ability to handle objects of different weight to be decisive; two or three different sizes of robots will be needed to satisfy the need of the four areas.

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Carl Lundberg, Roger Reinhold, and Henrik I. Christensen "Evaluation of robot deployment in live missions with the military, police, and fire brigade", Proc. SPIE 6538, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VI, 65380R (4 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718345

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