Human Detecting Robot

There are many different kind of catastrophe in natural and man-made disaster: earthquake, flooding, hurricane and they cause different disaster area like collapsed building, landslide or crater. During these emergency situations, and specially in urban disaster, many different people are deployed (policeman, fire fighters and medical assistance). They need to Co-operate to save lives, protect structural infrastructure, and evacuate victims to safety. In such situations, human rescuers must make quick decisions under stress, and try to get victims to safety often at their own risk. They must determine the location and status of victims and the stability of the structures as quickly as possible so that medics and firefighters can enter the disaster area and save victims. All of these tasks are performed mostly by human and trained dogs, often in very dangerous and risky situations. This is why since some years, mobile robots have been proposed to help them and to perform tasks that neither humans dogs nor existing tools can do. For this project, we will focus only on robots which will work in a disaster environment of man-made structure, like collapsed buildings.