The goal of our work is building a DSS (Decision Support System) for resource allocation and planning in the situations of natural disasters emergencies in urban areas such as Hanoi in Vietnam. A first step has been to conceive Multi-agent environment that supports simulation of disasters taking into account geospatial, temporal and rescue organizational information. The problem we address is t...

In this work we describe a model-based approach to the execution and control of an autonomous rescue rover. We show how this control architecture naturally supports human-robot interaction in the diverse activities needed in rescue and search. We deploy high-level agent programming in Temporal Concurrent Golog (TCGolog) which provides both a declarative language (i.e. Temporal Concurrent Situat...

We present a multimodal interaction framework that allows a human operator to interact with co-located drones during search and rescue missions. In contrast with usual human-multidrones interaction scenarios, in this case the operator is not fully dedicated to the control of the robots, but directly involved in search and rescue tasks, hence only able to provide fast, although high-value, instr...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND A major incident has occurred when the number of live casualties, severity, type of incident or location requires extraordinary resources. Major incident management is interdisciplinary and involves triage, treatment and transport of patients. We aimed to investigate experiences within major incident preparedness and management among Norwegian rescue workers. METHODS ...

Supernova 1987A Hisakazu Minakata † and Hiroshi Nunokawa † Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study 207-43, Cheongryangri-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-012...