Achim Lilienthal talks about rescue robotics and how he is working
with integrating sensors that can work and be useful in this
challenging application like gas sensors.
Achim got in to robotics from working in physics when the team hid did
his PhD worked on gas sensors and he saw an opportunity to contribute
based on his background in physics.
He also talks about a strong personal reason for developing gas
sensors as a family member was killed in a gas explosion when he was a
kid.
We also hear more about the challenges in using commercial senors that
are intended for lab use and not for field use mounted on a robot.
He talks about how he implements machine learning to detect gasses
that was not meant to be in that particular situation.
We also get to hear about how you can use different sensors to create
a fingerprint of the gases in a situation and how you can use this to
great a "heat map" describing what gases are there and at what
concentration.
This can help in determening the risk of an explosion by sensing gas
type, consentration and heat.
He also tells us about the smokebot project that aims to oreduce risks
for emergensy personel and to use resourcess mor eficently in an
timecritical amergency situation.
We hear about why it is very hard to deploy robots in many emergensy
situations and especilay in fires where there are smoke that blocks
most sensrors blinding the robot. One of the few sensors that actually
still works are radar and that can offer great asistance to
firefighters.
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