Investigation report of the rescue problem at Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in Kobe

Author

Tadokoro, Satoshi ; Takamori, Toshi ; Osuka, Koichi ; Tsurutani, Saburo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Eng., Kobe Univ., Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1880

Abstract

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake killed more than 6500 on January 17, 1995. Many people barely escaped from the debris and actively saved buried people. Rescue facilities are really important for robust social systems. Robotics and mechatronics are effective for advanced rescue equipment and systems. However, there has been little research and development performed until now. In order for robotics researchers to start, analysis of the tasks and requirements is necessary. In this research, the processes of rescue activities just after the disaster were investigated. Specifications of rescue robotic facilities are proposed on the basis of the analysis

Keywords

disasters; earthquakes; mechatronics; robots; Hanshin-Awaji earthquake; advanced rescue equipment; rescue activities; rescue facilities; rescue problem; rescue robotic facilities; robust social systems; Earthquake engineering; Floors; Humans; Informatics; Mechatronics; Research and development; Robots; Robustness; Steel; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2000. (IROS 2000). Proceedings. 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Takamatsu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6348-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2000.895245

Filename

895245