Disaster Management Action Plan and Integration of Robotics in existing Protection service structures

In the emergency of a fire or in the aftermath of a disaster, the struck area is rather difficult to access and may have become hazardous, hostile or toxic. Establishing whether the ground can be entered safely by human beings is time consuming. A major challenge is to quickly acquire and gather in situ data and forward information about the actual situation throughout the entire system. The View-Finder research project develops robots and an advanced base station for inspection of a crisis ground as well as the necessary interfaces to manage the robots from the base station and tools to facilitate the crisis management to the people involved in the crisis as well as their interaction.