A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for
disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and
ground, air, and marine modalities. This book offers the definitive
guide to the theory and practice of disaster robotics. It can serve
as an introduction for researchers and technologists, a reference
for emergency managers, and a textbook in field robotics. Written
by a pioneering researcher in the field who has herself
participated in fifteen deployments of robots in disaster response
and recovery, the book covers theory and practice, the history of
the field, and specific missions. After a broad overview of rescue
robotics in the context of emergency informatics, the book provides
a chronological summary and formal analysis of the thirty-four
documented deployments of robots to disasters that include the 2001
collapse of the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, the 2010
Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the 2011
Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and numerous mining accidents. It
then examines disaster robotics in the typical robot modalities of
ground, air, and marine, addressing such topics as robot types,
missions and tasks, and selection heuristics for each modality.
Finally, the book discusses types of fieldwork, providing practical
advice on matters that include collecting data and collaborating
with emergency professionals. The field of disaster robotics has
lacked a comprehensive overview. This book by a leader in the
field, offering a unique combination of the theoretical and the
practical, fills the gap.
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