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"This is achieved using fixed beacons, drones, and ground robots. The ground robot was developed as part of a BSc project and supports emergency teams by acquiring environmental parameters in real-time," says Noelia Fernández Talavera, one of the researchers who carried out the study., developed by Talavera and her colleagues, can monitor its surroundings. It also shares the collected data with firefighters.
"While in autonomous mode, the robot can cover entire rooms and corridors, providing local information on the environmental conditions," Talavera said. "Finally, the evacuation mode creates fast and safe routes toward targets. This mode uses the prior knowledge of the scene to compute the shortest path from the current position to the target one. This target position can be the exit of the building or the location of a victim, among other things," she added.Talavera and her colleagues put their robot through a battery of testing, including simulations and field experiments.
"The next steps in our research will be to improve the autonomous navigation system by integrating ROS and enhance the simulator to reproduce dynamic scenarios where fire and smoke advance in the same way as they would in real situations," Talavera added.
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