RESCUEBOT

AN AUTONOMOUS HUMAN LIFE DETECTING ROBOT

The unprecedented number of natural and human-induced disasters has urged the emergency
search and rescue community around the world to seek for newer, more effective equipment
to enhance their efficiency. The solution to such a complicated problem lies in creating robots
capable of quickly exploring a collapsed building and pinpointing the location of any
survivors. Existing search and rescue robots have the disadvantage of not being fully
autonomous, thus being slow to respond to real time issues that might be encountered in its
mission to rescue a victim.
The goal of this project is to design and implement a cost-effective autonomous search-andrescue robot to locate a survivor in a disaster zone.One of the major objectives of the project
is to incorporate efficient path-routing algorithms and ability to sense the varying terrain in
the environment.The other objectives include autonomous navigation between voids,obstacle
avoidance,passage finding under rubble by processing the data collected from its different
sensors,routemap construction and GPS locationing.Recon 1is equipped with a CMOS
camera for capturing and transmitting visual image to the operator, IRsensor, ultrasound
sensor to detect the changes in the environment, thermal sensor to sense body temperature,
gyroscope to tell the orientation of the robot in respect to gravitational pull and wireless
communication module for communication between the operator and the robot. Recon1
intends to pass on the notification to a remote system via wireless transmitter/receiver on
locating a survivor.
Rescue robots are making the transition from an interesting idea to an integral part of
emergency response. By using the efficient algorithms for path finding and life detection the
robots can be effectively used to save human lives and thereby reducing the huge death rate
in the calamities like earthquake, terrorist attacks etc.