Disaster robotics has become a research area in its own right, with several reported cases of
successful robot deployment in actual disaster scenarios. Most of these disaster …

Rapid search and rescue responses after earthquakes or in postseismic evaluation tend to
be extremely difficult. To solve this problem, we summarized the requirements of search and …

Human-robot interaction (HRI) research frequently explores how to design interfaces that
enable humans to effectively teleoperate and supervise robots. One of the principle goals of …

Search‐and‐rescue operations have recently been confronted with the introduction of
robotic tools that assist the human search‐and‐rescue workers in their dangerous but life …

The ICARUS EU-FP7 project deals with the development of a set of integrated components
to assist search and rescue teams in dealing with the difficult and dangerous, but life-saving …

In this paper, we provide a review of the principal aspects related to search & rescue (SAR)
with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with particular interest in the phase of post‐disaster …

To avoid risking the lives of rescue team personnel in the event of disasters like
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, etc., Search and Rescue (SAR) robots are …

In this work a graph-based, semantic mapping approach for indoor robotics applications is
presented, which is extending OpenStreetMap (OSM) with robotic-specific, semantic …

The successful introduction and acceptance of novel technological tools are only possible if
end users are completely integrated in the design process. However, obtaining such …

In the event of a large crisis (think about typhoon Haiyan or the Tohoku earthquake and
tsunami in Japan), a primordial task of the rescue services is the search for human survivors …