The Canine Remote Deployment System (CRDS) is a harness attachment intended for use by USAS canine teams. The CRDS is designed to allow a canine to carry a pack (the underdog) to a patient in rubble and allows the handler to release the underdog via a remote wireless transmitter. Normally, the CR...
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The Raven is light UAV equipped with several camera (including thermal, I think) that can be used over a disaster site to provide overhead views. It relies on an electric motor and batteries that provide about 30 minutes of loiter. Its GPS allows it to fly a pattern which minimizes operator requi...
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Response Robots can get fairly beat-up from debris and general operations. This was a curious moment at the 2006 Response Robot Evaluation Exercise.
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June 2007 at the Constellation hotel in Toronto during the HUSAR (Can TF3) exercise. Following the canine teams into the hot zone almost 48 hours after a CAT-equipped dog found a casualty in less than 2 minutes. A wall with multiple casualties behind it has just been breached but only canine acce...
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The Sumo Classic robot Cassandra, built <b>over</b> many generations of students and many departments and named after my daughter takes on "The King of Swing" robot made by Norm White (Ironically, also of Ryerson U but formerly of OCAD). We win due to a miscalculation on Norm’s design....
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The Canine Remote Deployment System (CRDS) is a dog-mounted remote delivery system for USAR canines. The CRDS is loaded with a pack...called an "underdog"...for delivery to a casualty trapped in rubble who cannot be reached by human responders.
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a Matilda robot is seen climbing metal stairs at one of the towers at Disaster City, Texas in 2006 at the NIST/DHS Response Robot Evaluation Exercise
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A pacbot shows its versatility but some obstacles cannot be overcome simply by good design. Video taken at "Lake George" (The only body of water for several hundred meters but managed to sink at least 3 robots while being driven by George H NY TF1). Disaster City, 2006
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An Andros robot with a proficient operator was tasked to remove a piece of rebar placed in rubble. The operator had both line of sight views and camera views yet the task was still very difficult to complete.
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