Performance standards for urban search and rescue robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6230 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Messina, Elena ^a   Jacoff, Adam ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeland security; Performance metrics; Performance standards; Robots; Urban search and rescue

Indexed keywords

HOMELAND SECURITY; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PERFORMANCE STANDARDS; URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE;

CODES (STANDARDS); DISASTERS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TARGETS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33748578312     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.663320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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