This Is Brac Academy Students Bring Invented A ‘Rescue Robot’ To Handle Disaster Victims

Natural disasters tin boom anywhere, anytime. But people are ever thinking upwards novel as well as innovative ways to provide relief when catastrophes occur. The recent earthquake inwards Nepal has highlighted this through crowdsourcing information (check out our previous post), as well as to a greater extent than late through the application of NASA engineering to break people trapped nether rubble. 

The search-and-rescue engineering called FINDER (Finding Individuals for Disaster as well as Emergency Response) tin break heartbeats “under thirty feet of rubble, xx feet of enterprise concrete as well as from a distance of 100 feet inwards opened upwards spaces,” according to NASA. This was the outset fourth dimension that FINDER was used inwards a existent life province of affairs as well as was able to relieve 4 men trapped less than 10 feet of rubble.

Source: Dhakatribune

The students of Brac University bring invented a ‘Rescue Robot’ which helps victims during natural or man-made disasters. It’s actually an innovative device that should last supported as well as helped them to interrogation farther for improving the technology.

The “Rescue Robot” tin crawl through the debris of earthquakes as well as landslides, as well as break life using carbon dioxide sensors as well as thermal photographic telly camera at a minimum cost. It tin provide a simpler, cheaper as well as to a greater extent than reliable agency to rail victims who are last as well as tin rescue them. One robot is able to acquit 1 human at a time.

Shadman Sakib Chowdhury as well as Mehbas Fairuz Nawal, students of Brac University, bring invented the unique machine. The immature inventors said the deaths of over 1,000 people inwards the Rana Plaza edifice collapse inwards 2013 shocked them a lot. Since then, they had been trying to break an easier solution for disaster rescue efforts because several people died piece trying to trace out the people trapped nether the rubble.

Mehbas said it was their dream project, as well as projection manager Khalilur Rahman, every bit good a instructor of estimator scientific discipline as well as applied scientific discipline at the university, inspired them to become inwards a reality. “Rescuing people later a massive disaster similar Rana Plaza is a tough task. At that time, if nosotros had this instrument, nosotros could bring saved to a greater extent than lives. Unfortunately, fifty-fifty rescuers died inwards the efforts,” said Shadman Sakib, an 11th semester pupil of electrical as well as electronic engineering. 

He said the real-time good as well as video transmitted from the robot to to LCD TV via radio frequency is processed yesteryear a individual controlling its motion; thereby an appropriate determination is reached regarding the presence of life. Hence, processing as well as transmission costs of real-time information is reduced. The sensor triggers a buzzer every bit the CO2 score inwards its vicinity reaches a develop threshold value to dot the presence of a human beingness nearby.

The robot tin every bit good monitor audio-video inputs amongst an FPV photographic telly camera as well as a connected torch. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 remote command propels the robot as well as communication is done through NRF beacons. Project manager Khalilur Rahman said that Brac University is cook to furnish such robots at times of disaster. He said, "The robot instantly costs Tk15,000. But nosotros are trying to cut back the toll for the greater involvement of the country.”
(Source: Dhakatribune)

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