Urban search and rescue robot performance standards: progress update

Adam Jacoff; Elena Messina

doi:10.1117/12.719692

2 May 2007 Urban search and rescue robot performance standards: progress update

Adam Jacoff, Elena Messina

Proceedings Volume 6561, Unmanned Systems Technology IX; 65611L (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.719692
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we describe work in performance standards for urban search and rescue (USAR) robots, begun in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security. This program is being coordinated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and will result in consensus standards developed through ASTM International, under the Operational Equipment Subcommittee of their Homeland Security Committee. A comprehensive approach to performance requirements and standards development is being used in this project. Formal test methods designed by several working groups in the standards task group are validated by the stakeholders. These tests are complemented by regular exercises in which responders and robot manufacturers work together to apply robots within realistic training scenarios. This paper recaps the most recent exercise, held at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Maryland Task Force 1 training facility, at which over twenty different robots were operated by responders from various FEMA Task Forces. The exercise included candidate standard test methods being developed for requirements in the areas of communications, mobility, sensors, and human-system interaction for USAR robots.

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Adam Jacoff and Elena Messina "Urban search and rescue robot performance standards: progress update", Proc. SPIE 6561, Unmanned Systems Technology IX, 65611L (2 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.719692

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