An Analysis on the Performance of a Mobile Platform with Gas Sensors for Real Time Victim Localization.

ABSTRACT: This work concerns the performance analysis of the sensors contained in a victim detection system. The system is a mobile platform with gas sensors utilized for real time victim localization in urban environments after a disaster has caused the entrapment of people in partially collapsed building structures. The operating principle of the platform is the sampling of air from potential survival spaces (voids) and the measurement of the sampled air's temperature and concentration of CO2 and O2. Humans in a survival space are modelled as sources of CO2 and heat and sinks of O2. The physical openings of a survival space are modelled as sources of fresh air and sinks of the internal air. These sources and sinks dynamically affect the monitored properties of the air inside a survival space. In t

SUBMITTER: Anyfantis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7999499 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature