Robots to the rescue

Murphy, Robin Roberson

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Robots to the rescue

dc.contributor.author	Murphy, Robin Roberson	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Texas A & M University. Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Mechanical Engineering	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Texas A & M University. Roboticists Without Borders	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-01-06T20:25:52Z
dc.date.available	2011-01-06T20:25:52Z
dc.date.issued	2010-12-02
dc.description	Lecture presented on Thursday, December 2, 2010, 11:00 am at the Ferst Center for the Arts on the Georgia Tech Campus.	en_US
dc.description	Robin Roberson Murphy is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and directs the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue and its Roboticists Without Borders program. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (1980), and a master’s degree (1989), and a Ph.D. in computer science (1992), all from Georgia Tech. She has more than one hundred publications in artificial intelligence, robotics, and human-robot interactions, including the textbooks Introduction to AI Robotics and AI in Mobile Robots (cited by Michael Crichton in his bestseller Prey). In 2008, she was awarded the AI Aube Outstanding Contributor Award by the AUVSI Foundation for founding the field of rescue robotics. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves on numerous governmental boards, including the Defense Science Board.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 63:33 minutes	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Why doesn’t FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) or MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration) use those “Hurt Locker” robots or Department of Defense unmanned aerial vehicles? Is having the Terminator crawl toward you a Good Thing? Once snake/cockroach/fly robots are perfected, rescue robotics is solved, right? Or is it making the robots fully autonomous? How many robots do you need for a disaster like a building collapse: 10? 100? This talk will answer these questions and discuss other surprises in the nascent field of rescue robotics based on fifteen years of research experience with rescue robots supplemented by the insertion of ground, air, and sea robots for urban search and rescue (US&R) into eleven disasters, including the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster, Hurricanes Katrina and Charley, and the Crandall Canyon Utah mine collapse. Extensive video will be shown as the talk explores how robots can reduce deaths, accelerate damage assessment, and minimize economic downtime after a disaster.	en
dc.format.extent	63:33 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/36595
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Harold W. Gegenheimer Lecture Series on Innovation	en_US
dc.subject	Emergency response	en_US
dc.subject	Rescue robots	en_US
dc.subject	Field robotics	en_US
dc.subject	Artificial intelligence	en_US
dc.subject	Robotics	en_US
dc.subject	Emergency informatics	en_US
dc.subject	Survivor buddy	en_US
dc.title	Robots to the rescue	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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local.contributor.corporatename	George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename	College of Engineering
local.relation.ispartofseries	Annual Harold W. Gegenheimer Lecture Series on Innovation
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