R-067 Entry Point Screening

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Title Robotic Technology for USAR Name of
Presenter Illah R. Nourbakhsh Date of
Presentation 30 March 2004
Operational Capability Robotic Search and Rescue
systems will save both first responder lives and
disaster victims lives. We intend to organize
an aggressive research and develop campaign that
brings together government, industry and
educational institutions that are top players in
robotic search and rescue. Collaborators
include NIST, Carnegie Mellon University, Intel
Corporation, University of Pittsburgh, University
of South Florida and Stanford University.
 

• Proposed Technical Approach
• Effective human-robot interaction
• USAR operating system standardization
• Mechatronic robot innovation
• Robot sensors interfaces
• Systems-level field testing and validation

• First Milestones
• Establishment of complete robotic training center
  for USAR
• Quantitative measures of team effectiveness,
  instrumented
• and measurable
• Robot prototypes validated in whole-system
  testing with immediate commercial applicability
• Contact Information
• Illah R. Nourbakhsh
• NASA/Ames Research Center MS269-2
• Moffet Field, California
• [phone]
• illah_at_email.arc.nasa.gov