Emergency evacuation robot design

3rd Int. Joint Topical Meeting on Emergency Preparedness and Response and Robotics and Remote Systems 2011, EPRRSD, and 13th Robotics and Remote Systems for Hazardous Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 780-789

  Robinette, Paul ^a   Howard, Ayanna M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm; Emergency evacuation robot; Guidance

Indexed keywords

ALARM; CONVENTION CENTER; EMERGENCY EVACUATION; EMERGENCY SITUATION; HUMAN OPERATOR; INITIAL DESIGN; LARGE BUILDINGS; MULTIROBOTS; ROBOT DESIGNS; ROBOT MODEL;

CIVIL DEFENSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROBOTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84855733161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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