The AVERT project: Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool

Abstract

Terrorism threatens horrific loss of life, extensive disruption to city transport and damage to commercial real estate. Vehicles provide an ideal delivery mechanism because they can be meticulously prepared well in advance of deployment and then brought into the area of operations. Furthermore, a real and present danger comes from the threat of Chemical, Radiological, Biological and Nuclear (CRBN) contamination. Current methods of bomb disruption and neutralisation are hindered in the event that the device is shielded, blocked or for whatever reason cannot be accessed for examination. The Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool (AVERT) project introduces a unique capability to Police and Armed Services to rapidly deploy, extract and remove blocking vehicles from vulnerable positions such as enclosed infrastructure spaces, tunnels, low bridges as well as under-building and underground car parks. Within the AVERT project, vehicles can be removed from confined spaces with delicate handling, swiftly and in any direction to a safer disposal point to reduce or eliminate collateral damage to infrastructure and personnel. The overall system will be commanded remotely and shall operate autonomously under its own power and sensor awareness, as a critical tool alongside existing technologies, thereby enhancing bomb disposal response speed and safety.

Research on the Interactive Training Pattern and the Applications on the Modern Emergency Rescue Training Activities

“…Innovative measures, on the one hand, it can consolidate students' emergency rescue knowledge, skills, hands-on ability increased significantly; On the other hand also to fully excavate students excellent and advanced molecular join family to the emergency rescue training and training promotion effect. Our school Red Cross volunteers overcome site, weather and other difficulties, sacrifice personal time to rest, weekend or evening, guarantee the emergency rescue training for all the work smoothly [8].…”

Multirobot Collaborative Navigation Algorithms Based on Odometer/Vision Information Fusion

“…At the same time, as a significant technical means to realize relative navigation, radio navigation and visual navigation are being paid much attention. It provides important technical support for further research on the collaborative navigation of multirobots [11][12][13]. However, the traditional combined navigation technology is far from meeting the growing demand for the high performance of collaborative navigation.…”

Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool: A Cooperative Robotic System for Car Extraction

“…The AVERT conceptual prototype of cooperative robots that pursue these operational attributes was presented in Amanatiadis et al. () and Amanatiadis et al. ().…”

“…The AVERT conceptual prototype of cooperative robots that pursue these operational attributes was presented in Amanatiadis et al (2013) and Amanatiadis et al (2015). This paper describes a more mature prototype, with the autonomous and semiautonomous functions integrated.…”