During the last decade, Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) have replaced piloted aircraft in a broad band of missions, showing a high potential for further growing, especially due to the avoidance of human risk in dangerous environments. Typical present and future roles include weather reconnaissance, offshore and border patrol, search and rescue assisting operations in sea and mountains, aerial phot...

This paper describes a WSN tool to increase safety in urban and industrial fire-fighting activities. Unlike most approaches, we assume that there is no preexisting WSN in the building, which involves interesting advantages but imposes some constraints. The system integrates the following functionalities: fire monitoring, firefighter monitoring and dynamic escape path guiding. It also includes a...

According to the International Advanced Robotics Program (IARP– www.iarp-robotics.org ), the Advanced Robots, while somewhat difficult to define precisely, have one or more of the following characteristics: to be able to sense and adapt to their environment , to be mobile , to operate in harsh, demanding or dangerous conditions or environments, to operate in non-manufacturing applications such ...

OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this paper was to explore the environmental factors which are considered to influence the workload of fire-fighters in Chile. METHODS Work studies were conducted during actual fire fighting in order to synchronise the various activities with cardiac frequency responses. At each fire environmental temperatures were recorded, and as an indicator of the increased de...

Becoming successful in fighting forest fires is not only a matter of taking the required measures into consideration and efficiently and economically using the resources, but also employing the cutting edge science and technology in every aspect of the process. Determining the potential fire prone regions within forest stands, plays an important role in the success rate of forest fire preventio...

A fire in an enclosed space, such as a room in a building, is generally called a compartment fire. To prevent the compartment fire, a sprinkler for first-aid fire-fighting is installed in rooms. However, it is difficult to determine the degree to which smoke generation and the fire spreading will be inhibited when sprinklers are on. In particular, demonstrating evacuation behavior assuming an a...