Design robots that save lives-fast. Robotics for Disaster Response: Designing Bots for Search and Rescue is a practical, field-tested playbook for building and deploying robots that work when the environment is hostile, time is short, and failure isn't an option. From collapsed buildings and wildfire zones to floodwaters and hazmat scenes, you'll learn how to design mobile, aerial, and underwater platforms that actually perform for first responders. Inside you'll get clear guidance on platform selection (UGV, UAV, USV ...
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Design robots that save lives-fast. Robotics for Disaster Response: Designing Bots for Search and Rescue is a practical, field-tested playbook for building and deploying robots that work when the environment is hostile, time is short, and failure isn't an option. From collapsed buildings and wildfire zones to floodwaters and hazmat scenes, you'll learn how to design mobile, aerial, and underwater platforms that actually perform for first responders. Inside you'll get clear guidance on platform selection (UGV, UAV, USV/ROV), locomotion for rubble and stairs, ruggedization, power budgets, and rapid payload swaps. Master sensors (thermal, LiDAR, radar, gas), GPS-denied navigation, mapping, and victim detection with classical CV and edge AI. Build reliable teleop and shared-autonomy stacks with low-latency comms, mesh networks, and smart failsafes. Then integrate your system into real incident workflows (ICS/NIMS), train operators, and validate performance with drills and after-action reviews. You'll learn how to: Choose chassis, tracks/legs/wheels, and propulsion for debris, water, and confined spaces Fuse thermal + RGB + LiDAR for search, triage, and obstacle negotiation Operate in GPS-denied, smoky, or dusty environments with robust SLAM Design human-robot teaming: intuitive UIs, haptics, and safe autonomy levels Build resilient comms: relay nodes, mesh, and link-loss behaviors Hard-test your bot with mission profiles, checklists, and AAR metrics Navigate ethics, safety, and chain-of-custody for data and evidence Who should read this: robotics engineers, SAR team leads, firefighters, emergency managers, public-safety technologists, grad students, and nonprofit/NGO responders. If you want robots that move from lab demo to life-saving deployment, buy this book now and ship a system your team can trust when minutes matter.
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