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Friday, September 3, 2010

DoD's Research Office Beta-Testing Components for Robotic Firefighter Tracker

Intelligent Automation announced that its sensor payload, which can determine the distance between robots inside a building, is currently being beta-tested as part of DARPA’s LANdroids program. The program was developed to address the obstacles inside buildings that impact the manner in which radio signals propagate that can leave sensors without the ability to reach back to incident command or each other, said Eric van Doorn, the company’s chief scientist. DARPA asked industry to develop prototype tracking devices for firefighters who work inside buildings. Van Doorn said the LANdroid program hopes to addresses in-building interference by ...

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