Objective
Recent dramatic events such as the earthquakes in Haiti and L’Aquila or the flooding in Pakistan have shown that local civil authorities and emergency services have difficulties with adequately managing crises. The result is that these crises lead to major disruption of the whole local society. The goal of ICARUS is to decrease the total cost (both in human lives and in €) of a major crisis. In order to realise this goal, the ICARUS project proposes to equip first responders with a comprehensive and integrated set of unmanned search and rescue tools, to increase the situational awareness of human crisis managers and to assist search and rescue teams for dealing with the difficult and dangerous, but life-saving task of finding human survivors.
As every crisis is different, it is impossible to provide one solution which fits all needs. Therefore, the ICARUS project will concentrate on developing components or building blocks that can be directly used by the crisis managers when arriving on the field. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground and sea vehicles, equipped with human detection sensors. The ICARUS unmanned vehicles are intended as the first explorers of the area, as well as in-situ supporters to act as safeguards to human personnel. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communicating via ad hoc cognitive radio networking. To ensure optimal human-robot collaboration, these ICARUS tools are seamlessly integrated into the C4I equipment of the human crisis managers and a set of training and support tools is provided to the human crisis to learn to use the ICARUS system.
Furthermore, the project aims to provide an integrated proof-of-concept solution, to be evaluated by a board of expert end-users that can verify that operational needs are addressed.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologycognitive radio
Call for proposal
FP7-SEC-2011-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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Participants (27)
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19126 La Spezia
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08290 CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES
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1932 Zaventem
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01510 Miñano
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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80686 Munchen
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02 078 WARSZAWA
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22520 BINIC
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1040 Wien
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28232 Rozas De Madrid
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8051 ZURICH
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36400 O PORRINO
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4200 465 Porto
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GL20 8TD TEWKESBURY
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2000 NEUCHATEL
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8092 Zuerich
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28037 Madrid
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67663 Kaiserslautern
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1110 Bruxelles / Brussel
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40012 CALDERARA DI RENO BO
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71230 SAINT VALLIER
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1990-506 LISBOA
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1400-204 Lisboa
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1000 BRUSSEL
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1015 Lausanne
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08840 Viladecans
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