Today, human intervention is the only effective course of action after a natural or artificial disaster. This is true both for relief operations, where search and rescue of survivors is the priority, and for subsequent activities, such as those devoted to building assessment. In these contexts, the use of robotic systems would be beneficial to drastically reduce operators? risk exposure. However, the readiness level of robots still prevents their effective exploitation in relief operations, which are highly critical and characterized by severe time constraints. On the contrary, current robotic technologies can be profitably applied in procedures like building assessment after an earthquake. To date, these operations are carried out by engineers and architects who inspect numerous buildings over a large territory, with a high cost in terms of time and resources, and with a high risk due to aftershocks. The main idea is to have the robot acting as an alter ego of the human operator, who, thanks to a virtual-reality device and a body-tracking system based on inertial sensors, teleoperates the robot.


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    Titel :

    Humanoids at Work: The WALK-MAN Robot in a Postearthquake Scenario


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2018-01-01



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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