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2/13/2012 Information Technology Group #2 Information Technology Group #2 IT GROUP #2--8 PROJECTS (30 Minutes) Leader: Ron Eguchi Japan & NZ US Caverlee, James Texas A&M University RAPID: Earthquake Damage Assessment from Social Media Koshimura, Shunichi RAPID: The Role of Urban Development Patterns in Mitigating Japan US Eguchi, Ronald ImageCat, Inc. the Effects of Tsunami Run-up The Role of Urban Development Patterns in Mitigating the J-RAPID Japan Koshimura, Shunichi Tohoku University Eguchi, Ronald Effects of Tsunami Run-up RAPID: Robots Designed to Assist During Nuclear Catastrophes Furukawa, Tomonari for Japan US Analytical Software Inc. - Autonomously Creating 3-D Maps, Collecting Radiation/Other Haley, Mark Data at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plants RAPID: Aerial Robots for Remote Autonomous Exploration and Japan US Kumar, R. Vijay University of Pennsylvania Yoshida, Kazuya Mapping Aerial Robots for Rapid Response: Remote Autonomous J-RAPID Japan Yoshida, Kazuya Tohoku University Kumar, R. Vijay Exploration and Mapping Mahoor, Mohammed RAPID: CRAWLER Robot with Dual-Use Limbed Locomotion and Japan US for Andrews, Anneliese University of Denver Tadokoro, Satoshi Manipulation for Void Inspection Mahoor, International Rescue System J-RAPID Japan Tadokoro, Satoshi Mohammed for CRAWLER Robot with Dual-Use Limbed Locomotion and Institute Andrews, Anneliese Manipulation for Void Inspection Matsuno, Fumitoshi RAPID: Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami- Remote Assessment Japan US Murphy, Robin Texas A&M University Using Land, Sea and Aerial Unmanned Systems International Rescue System Recovery Activities Using Underwater Robots in Tsunami- J-RAPID Japan Matsuno, Fumitoshi Murphy, Robin Institute devastated Areas Japan US Tsugawa, Mauricio University of Florida Hirofuchi, Takahiro IT Virtualization for Disaster Mitigation and Recovery The National Institute of Advanced J-RAPID Japan Hirofuchi, Takahiro Tsugawa, Mauricio Industrial Science and Technology IT Virtualization for Disaster Mitigation and Recovery 1

2/13/2012 Situational Awareness Emergency Response Situational Community Robust Awareness under Damage Communications Hazardous Assessment Conditions Remote Sensing Crowdsourcing Social Media Virtual Machines Robotics Unmanned Vehicles Community Damage Assessment •Caverlee, TAMU – Earthquake Damage Assessment from Social Emergency Response Media Community Damage Analysis Robust Damage under Hazardous Communications Assessment Conditions •Eguchi, ImageCat & Koshimura, Unmanned Remote Sensing Crowdsourcing Social Media Virtual Machines Robotics Vehicles Tohoku University – The Role of Urban Development Patterns in Mitigating the Effects of Tsunami Run-up 2

2/13/2012 Earthquake Damage Assessment from Social Media James Caverlee (Computer Science) John Mander (Civil Engineering) Texas A&M University Twitter-based “intensity” • Objective: Assess, characterize, and model earthquake damage using GPS-labeled social media posted in the minutes and hours post- emergency Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 Key Findings • Spatial density of all social media posts is consistent with shaking intensity trend (compared to isoseismal map) • Surprisingly, density of social media posts including photos is highest in seriously-damaged areas, indicating capacity of images for rapid damage assessment Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 3

2/13/2012 The Role of Urban Development Patterns in Mitigating the Effects of Tsunami Run-up � � US Japan – Ronald T. Eguchi – Fumio Yamazaki – John Bevington Shunichi Koshimura – – Albert Lin – Masashi Matsuoka – James D. Goltz, Consultant Purpose of RAPID Grant: to understand the relationship between urban development patterns and the extent of physical damage caused by widespread tsunami run-up. Technologies & data used: � Remote-sensing image analysis of pre & post- earthquake data � Crowdsourcing techniques for scalable analysis of the large imagery datasets � Tsunami simulation models to scale community results to larger areas or regions. � Interaction of demographic and social characteristics with the built environment to produce safety or mortality in the earthquake and tsunami. Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 Key Findings � The data collected so far indicates Ishinomaki Onagawa that certain neighborhood configurations can offer some Not Protected protection to community residents (e.g., parts of Ishinomaki that were Protected located behind large, coastal wharf structures) while other configurations can actually enhance damage and Red - Before Destroyed impacts (e.g., Onagawa). � Ground survey data are needed in order to fully characterize the extent of building damage, i.e., much damage is missed by only using remote sensing imagery. After Community-based fragility curves have been developed Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 4

2/13/2012 Situational Awareness under Hazardous Conditions •Furukawa, Analytical Software, Inc. – Robots Designed to Assist during Nuclear Catastrophes – Autonomously creating 3-D Maps, Collecting Radiation/Other Data at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plants Emergency Response •Kumar, University of Pennsylvania & Yoshida , Tohoku University – Aerial Robots for Remote Situation Community Robust Awareness under Damage Communications Hazardous Autonomous Exploration and Mapping Assessment Conditions Unmanned •Mahoor, University of Denver & Tadokoro, Remote Sensing Crowdsourcing Social Media Virtual Machines Robotics Vehicles International Rescue System Institute , Crawler Robot with Dual-Use Limbed Locomotion and Manipulation for Void Inspection •Murphy, Texas A&M & Matsuno - Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami – Remote Assessment using Land, Sea and Aerial Unmanned Systems; Recovery Activities using Underwater Robots in Tsunami-devastated Areas Enhanced capabilities for Fukushima-type Rescue Robots – RAPID Title: Robots designed to assist during Nuclear Catastrophes - Autonomously creating 3- D Maps, Collecting Radiation/other data at Nuclear Power Plants such as at Fukushima – Mark Haley, President, Analytical Software Inc., TX – Professor Kenzo Nonami and Professor Mark Haley , Chiba University, Japan – Added autonomous capabilities for iRobot’s Packbot, main robot currently operating inside Fukushima Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 5

2/13/2012 Key Findings • Autonomous Capabilities are key for Fukushima- type rescue robots - Real-time 3D SLAM and other technologies which reduce manual operations are crucial for rescue robots. • Research focused on adding capabilities to iRobot’s Packbot, main robot currently operating inside Fukushima. Japan. In high profile disasters it is risky to use untested technology in the field. Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 RAPID: Aerial Robots for Remote Autonomous Exploration and Mapping Vijay Kumar and Nathan Michael, University of Pennsylvania Kazuya Yoshida, Keiji Nagatani, Satoshi Tadokoro and Kazunori Ohno Tohoku University, Sendai Japan Objective: Consider 3D mapping and exploration of a multi-story earthquake- damaged building in Sendai, Japan via ground and aerial robots. Aerial robot “Pelican” Ground robot “Quince” Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 6

2/13/2012 Key Findings � Successfully mapped the 7 th , 8 th , and 9 th floors of an earthquake-damaged building via remotely operated ground robots from Tohoku and an aerial robot from UPenn. � Mapping results clearly show locations of structural damage and environment layout. 9F 8F 7F Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 7

2/13/2012 RAPID #1135848: Sendai Earthquake & Tsunami- Remote Assessment Using Land, Sea, & Aerial Unmanned Systems Objective: participatory research in Objective: participatory research in order to understand human-robot order to understand human-robot interaction, sensing for structural interaction, sensing for structural missions, multi-robot coordination, missions, multi-robot coordination, and GIS integration and reasoning and GIS integration and reasoning Center for Robot-Assisted Search & Rescue International Rescue System Institute (Japan) (USA) • Prof. Robin Murphy, Director and Team Leader, • Prof. Fumihito Matsuno, VP IRS and government Texas A&M University liaison, and Dr. Kazuyuki Kon, Kyoto University • Dr. Eric Steimle, Deputy Team Leader, AEOS Inc. • Prof. Tetsuya Kimura, Field Team Leader, Nagaoka University of Technology • Mr. Jesse Rodocker & Mr. Sean Newsome, SeaBotix, Inc • Mr. Kenichi Makabe, Professional Firefighter • Ms. Karen Dreger, University of South Florida • Prof. Satoshi Takokoro, Director IRS, Tohoku Center for Ocean Technology University • Mr. Richard Smith, Texas A&M Corpus Christi • Nobutoshi Hiro, Yudai Hasumi, graduate students • Mr. Brian Slaughter, General Dynamics Japan and NZ Earthquakes RAPID and Research Needs Workshop Arlington, VA Feb 9 and 10, 2012 8