The concept of airmobile robotic complex for search and rescue operations in conditions of the Arctic and the Far North

Sergey A. Polovko
PhD in Technical Sciences, Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), Deputy Chief Designer, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-47-64, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Eugeny V. Pavlov
Federal State Establishment All-Russian Research Institute for Fire Protection of Ministry of Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (FGU VNIIPO of EMERCOM of Russia), Deputy Head of the Institute, 12, mkr. VNIIPO, Balashikha, Moscow Region, 143903, Russia, tel.: +7(495)529-81-89, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Petr K. Shubin
PhD in Technical Sciences, RTC, Head of Laboratory, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-05-69, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Marina V. Kuleshova
RTC, Leading Engineer, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Received 02 December 2019

Abstract
The relevance of rescue robotics’ creating and implementing to ensure the safety of personnel of offshore facilities and ship crews in the Arctic, including the Arctic shelf and the Northern Sea Route, is considered. Available search and rescue aids are considered. The concept of a robotic airmobile complex of multipurpose life-saving means (RC ML-SM) is proposed. An assessment of the feasibility of the RC ML-SM project is completed. The implementation of the concept of robotic rescue equipment will allow eliminating the risk of rescuers’ death, as well as increasing the efficiency and reducing the time to perform rescue operations in the complex weather conditions of the Arctic and the Far North. The practical application of the RC ML-SM will make it possible to remove rescuers from the high-risk area, to increase the functionality, speed and productivity of rescue equipment in extreme conditions of search and rescue operations in the Arctic and the Far North, and also provide an additional incentive for the main innovative development directions of marine robotics.

Key words
Search, rescue, robotics, complex, system, Arctic.

Acknowledgements
The work was carried out as part of the fulfillment of the state task of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia no.075-00924-19-00 «Methods of automatic synthesis of optimal behavior control of a robot group based on situational analysis using semantic technologies». 

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31776/RTCJ.8303

Bibliographic description
Polovko, S., Pavlov, E., Shubin, P. and Kuleshova, M., 2020. The concept of airmobile robotic complex for search and rescue operations in conditions of the Arctic and the Far North. Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, 8(3), pp.181-188.

UDC identifier:
007.52:621.865.8-5:623.488

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