Rescue robots have been used in at least 28 disasters in six countries since the first
deployment to the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse. All types of robots have been used …

Human-Machine collaboration is a vastly developing field in the area of Robotics. This paper
introduces the concept of such collaboration and describes its use in various facets of our …

Applications of robotic systems have had an explosive growth in recent years. In 2008, more
than eight million robots were deployed worldwide in factories, battlefields, and medical …

Despite the fact that a large number of research studies have been conducted in the field of
search and rescue robotics, significantly little attention has been given to the development of …

New technologies are emerging to enable and support physical, implicit and explicit
collaborations. They are essential for dealing with increasingly complex systems in …

In this work, we propose a novel mobile rescue robot equipped with an immersive
stereoscopic teleperception and a teleoperation control. This robot is designed with the …

Methods and systems for securing remotely-operable devices are provided. A security
device can receive a plurality of commands to control a remotely-operable device in a …

This paper addresses the search and rescue scenario Casualty Evacuation (CasEvac) at the
European Land Robot Trial (ELROB). A disaster response robot can be sent into areas to …

In recent years, several robots have been developed and deployed to perform casualty
extraction tasks. However, the majority of these robots are overly complex, and require …

This paper describes a cooperative search and rescue exercise where an unmanned
ground vehicle (UGV) is used by a military rescue team for extraction and evacuation of a …