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<aside> <img src="/icons/robot_gray.svg" alt="/icons/robot_gray.svg" width="40px" /> The case study describes the development of a rescue robot by BotPro, a company that specializes in making robots for industrial applications. The focus of the robot is to help with search and rescue efforts after disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis. The robot is designed to assist rescue teams by searching and mapping areas, assessing damage, removing debris, delivering supplies, and evacuating casualties. However, the robot has had trouble navigating inside buildings and reaching the exact location of survivors. The main problem was found to be the accuracy and strength of the GPS signal inside the buildings. The design team at BotPro was commissioned to redesign the rescue robot with the capability to explore, map, and survey the interior of unknown and damaged buildings. The design team identified five problems that needed to be addressed: accurate mapping of the area, navigation in a dynamic and unknown environment, finding survivors, communication, and cost-effectiveness. The use of rescue robots has several advantages, but there are also social and ethical issues that need to be considered. The document also discusses the challenges faced by the design team, including understanding how vSLAM navigates an environment with unknown obstacles and contours, minimizing the time rescue robots spend scanning and learning an environment, estimating the pose of people despite varying light and environmental conditions and body-part or multiple-object occlusion, updating existing maps in a dynamically changing environment, and developing an understanding of the ethical considerations of using autonomous robots in life-and-death situations. The document also describes the technologies used in the rescue robot, including computer vision techniques such as visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) and pose estimation.
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