Instrumenting bomb disposal suits with wireless sensor networks

ICINCO 2008 - 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Proceedings

Volumn SPSMC, Issue , 2008, Pages 23-31

  Kemp, John ^a   Gaura, Elena I ^a   Brusey, James ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuation; Body sensor networks; First responders

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); COOLING; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SKIN;

ACTUATION; AUTONOMOUS DECISIONS; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; EXTERNAL OBSERVERS; FIRST RESPONDERS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SKIN TEMPERATURES; WIRELESS SENSING;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 58049153766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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