After Action Report to the Unmanned Ground Vehicles/Systems-Joint Program Office: Center for the Robotic Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) Related Efforts at the World Trade Center

Abstract

This report provides a quick summary of the introduction of small teleoperated robots to disaster-related search and rescue operations following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack upon the World Trade Center in New York City. This report also lists certain lessons learned from that event and proposes recommendations based upon those lessons for future development, deployment, and operation of urban search and rescue robotic tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA407901

Entities

People

  • Hobart R. Everett
  • Michael R. Blackburn
  • Robin T. Laird

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Deployment
  • Disasters
  • Emergency Response
  • First Responders
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Lessons Learned
  • Navigation
  • New York
  • Robots
  • Search And Rescue
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy