Improved Fire Extinguishing Apparatus for Steam Vessels

Fire Spread Simulation Tool for Cruise Vessels

In 2002 an amendment to SOLAS opened for lightweight material constructions in vessels if the same fire safety as in steel constructions could be obtained. FISPAT (FIreSPread Analysis Tool) is a computer application that simulates fire spread and fault injection in cruise vessels and identifies fire sensitive areas. It was developed to analyze cruise vessel designs and provides a method to eval...

A steam distillation apparatus suitable for micro-Kjeldahl analysis.

Method and Apparatus for Improved Active Sonar

The invention is a method for improved active sonar using a singular value decomposition filtering and a Volterra-Hermite Basis Expansion to model real active sonar measurements. The fitting model minimizes the sum of the squared errors between a measured channel response, z(t), and model response, y(t), which is a fitted Volterra Series solution. The model requires as input an excitation wavef...

Identification and Assessment of Human Error during the Process of Operating Various Types of Fire Apparatus

Background and Aim: Firefighting is a difficult and dangerous job. This job requires decision-making and speed of action in critical situations. Such conditions increase the probability of human error in the firefighting activities. Setting up fire apparatus as the first step of emergency response is associated with high criticality. The purpose of this study is identification and assessment th...

Distributed Service-Based Cooperation in Aerial/Ground Robot Teams Applied to Fire Detection and Extinguishing Missions

This paper presents a system for the coordination of aerial and ground robots for applications such as surveillance and intervention in emergency management. The overall system architecture is described. An important part for the coordination between robots is the task allocation strategy. A distributed market-based algorithm, called S+T, has been developed to solve the multi-robot task allocat...