Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
6-2008
Keywords
canine augmentation technology, urban search and rescue, accelerometers, bluetooth, wifi
Abstract
In this paper we discuss the use of accelerometers and Bluetooth to monitor canine pose in the context of common poses observed in urban search and rescue dogs. We discuss the use of the canine pose system in a disaster environment, and propose techniques for determining canine pose. In addition we discuss the challenges with this approach in such environments. The paper presents the experimental results obtained from the heavy urban search and rescue disaster simulation, where experiments were conducted using multiple canines, which show that angles can be derived from acceleration readings. Our experiments show that similar angles were measured for each of the poses, even when measured on multiple USAR canines of varying size. We also found measurable and consistent differences between each of the poses, making them clearly distinguishable from one another, again even when comparing with different USAR canines.
Faculty
Faculty of Applied Science & Technology (FAST)
Journal
IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering
Copyright
© Cristina Ribeiro, Alexander Ferworn, Mieso Denko, James Tran, Chris Mawson
Terms of Use
Terms of Use for Works posted in SOURCE.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Original Publication Citation
Cristina, R.,Ferworn, A., Denko, M. & Mawson, C.(2008). Wireless estimation of canine pose for search and rescue. IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering. 10.1109/SYSOSE.2008.4724172.
SOURCE Citation
Ribeiro, Cristina; Ferworn, Alexander; Denko, Mieso; Tran, James; and Mawson, Chris, "Wireless Estimation of Canine Pose for Search and Rescue" (2008). Publications and Scholarship. 52.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/fast_publications/52
