Rescue Robotics DDT Project on Robots and Systems for Urban Search a
Rescue Robotics presents the most significant products of the DDT Project on robots and systems for urban search and rescue. This project was launched by the Japanese government in 2002 with the aim of applying a wide variety of robotics technologies to f
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Satoshi Tadokoro Editor
Rescue Robotics DDT Project on Robots and Systems for Urban Search and Rescue
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Satoshi Tadokoro, Prof. Graduate School of Information Sciences Tohoku University 6-6-01 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579 Japan
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To the more than 6,400 victims who died at the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on January 17, 1995.
Preface
Frequent outbreaks of natural disasters is a serious problem on a global scale. In 2008, when the author was editing this book, Sichuan earthquake attacked China and struck the lives of more than 70,000 residents. Recently, significant damage has been caused in Asian countries by a number of disasters such as the huge cyclone in Myammar and the tsunami in Sumatra. The United States has suffered damage from hurricanes, floods, tornados, and forest fires almost every year. It is reported in ancient documents that several catastrophes shattered urban cities. The human race has experienced a number of natural disasters in its history. In Japan, the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake claimed more than 6,400 human lives in the center of the urban city of Kobe in the early morning of January 17, 1995. Japan is located in the area where huge earthquakes frequently occur. The Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion of Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) estimated that the probability that in the next 30 years, a Nankai-Tonankai earthquake of magnitude 8.5 will occur is
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