Mobile robots in mine rescue and recovery

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-103

  Murphy, Robin R ^a   Kravitz, Jeffery ^b   Stover, Samuel L ^c   Shoureshi, Rahmat ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Federal Emergency Management Agency   (United States)

^d Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Crawlers; Data mining; Inspection; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Robots

Indexed keywords

CRAWLERS; GROUND CONDITIONS; HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS; MINING ACCIDENT; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; TEAM MEMBERS; UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS;

COAL MINES; DISASTERS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; METAL RECOVERY; MINES; MINING; MOBILE ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SENSORS;

MINE RESCUE;

EID: 67649580542     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2009.932521     Document Type: Article

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