Team pursuit track cycling is a bicycle racing sport held on velodromes and is part of the Summer Olympics. It involves the use of strategies to minimize the overall time that a team of cyclists needs to complete a race. We present an optimisation framework for team pursuit track cycling and show how to evolve strategies using metaheuristics for this interesting real-world problem. Our experime...

A technique for rescue task in bore well environment has been proposed. India is facing a distressed cruel situation where in the previous years a number of child deaths have been reported falling in the bore well. As the diameter of the bore well is quiet narrow for any adult person and the lights goes dark inside it, the rescue task in those situations is a challenging task. Here we are propo...

This paper describes two implementations of a potential field sharing multirobot system which we term as pessimistic and optimistic. Unlike other multirobot systems in which coordination is designed explicitly, it is an emergent property of our system. The robots perform no reasoning and are purely reactive in nature. We extend our previous work in simulated search and rescue where there was on...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between age, aerobic capacity (VO2 max) and other health indicators among 3 rescue groups. The type of training and the subjective perception of physical fitness obtained via the Assessment Questionnaire of Physical Fitness were also analysed. To obtain VO2 max, 37 firefighters, 22 lifeguards and 59 mine rescue workers had a treadmill test...

Urban search and rescue (USAR) robots have the potential of identifying the location of trapped people following a disaster. The majority of survivors in open spaces will be rapidly located and extracted by rescue personnel. Therefore, the greatest challenge for rescue robotics is to penetrate deep within collapsed buildings to search for survivors. In this paper, several robotic challenges are...

After an earthquake, disaster sites pose a multitude of health and safety concerns. A rescue operation of people trapped in the ruins after an earthquake disaster requires a series of intelligent behavior, including planning. For a successful rescue operation, given a limited number of available actions and regulations, the role of planning in rescue operations is crucial. Fortunately, recent d...

Correspondence to Prof. Dr. C. Kloft, Institute of Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Kelchstr. 31, 12169 Berlin, Germany charlotte.kloft@ fu-berlin.de