To improve the efficiency of forest fire fighting, ride comfort is very important for firemen to maintain good physical condition. Firstly, a whole vehicle model was established with the ADAMS/view(Automatic Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems) software. Next, test and simulation were performed to verify the three-dimensional model. Finally, the comparison of real vehicle test and ride comfo...

2 Igor M. Verner, Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel, [email protected] Abstract -This paper introduces the Trinity College FireFighting Home Robot Contest (TCFFHRC), evaluates the curricular impact of the contest at university and highschool levels, and provides examples of student projects inspired by...

Wildfires in forests and forested areas in South Europe, North America, Central Asia and Australia are a diachronic threat with crucial ecological, economic and social impacts. Last decade the frequency, the magnitude and the intensity of fires have increased even more because of the climate change. An efficient response to such disasters requires an effective planning, with an early detection ...

In a context of risk of forest fire, the development of actions concerning wildfire prevention and land management is necessary and essential particularly in wildland urban interfaces (WUI). The term ‘WUI’ always includes components such as human presence and wildland vegetation. Both the hazard (probability of fire outbreak, distribution) and the vulnerability of urban areas can be characteriz...

ly, let M be the number of copies of a single multicast that a member receives from the lower dissemination layer. For the Pbcast implementation, since each member gossips a given multicast for O(log(n)) gossip rounds and to randomly chosen targets, we have M = O(log(n)). To maximize the throughput, one would want to minimize the number of copies M of a multicast that a member receives from the...

Abstract Suppose a ‘fire’ breaks out in the digital realm. Which fire brigade would we call? Do sufficiently understand vulnerabilities? What should prioritize our fire-fighting efforts? powers do authorities have to minimize number of victims and limit damage? Are their commensurate for world? These questions take on renewed urgency when question is not limited domain but, left unchecked, has ...

In their work, firefighters have a great risk of danger and require PPE in work. However, the reality field management is still not well implemented. This happens because facilities provided by local government Kabupaten Jember are maximal availability accordance with standard. The purpose this study was to assess personal protective equipment for fire fighters at Fire Department UPT Jember. re...

In the extreme environments posed by war fighting, fire fighting, and nuclear accident response, the cost of direct human exposure is levied in terms of injury and death. Robotic alternatives must address effective operations while removing humans from danger. This is profoundly challenging, as extreme environments inflict cumulative performance damage on exposed robotic agents. Sensing and per...