Autonomous mobile platform for enhanced situational awareness in Mass Casualty Incidents

Author

Dongyi Yang ; Schafer, Jochen ; Sili Wang ; Ganz, Aura

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

898

Lastpage

901

Abstract

To enhance the efficiency of the search and rescue process of a Mass Casualty Incident, we introduce a low cost autonomous mobile platform. The mobile platform motion is controlled by an Android Smartphone mounted on a robot. The pictures and video captured by the Smartphone camera can significantly enhance the situational awareness of the incident commander leading to a more efficient search and rescue process. Moreover, the active RFID readers mounted on the mobile platform can improve the localization accuracy of victims in the disaster site in areas where the paramedics are not present, reducing the triage and evacuation time.

Keywords

disasters; emergency management; radiofrequency identification; rescue robots; smart phones; Android Smartphone; Mass Casualty Incidents; RFID readers; autonomous mobile platform; disaster; enhanced situational awareness; localization accuracy; robot; search-and-rescue process; Active RFID tags; Microcontrollers; Mobile communication; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Smart phones;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943736

Filename

6943736