Essay On Natural Disaster

FABRICATION OF ROBOT DETECTING LIVE HUMAN USING THERMEL DETECTION AND PULSE READER

Krishna Kumar M1, Senthil Kumar S2

1Assistant professor, 2Associate Professor

Center of Excellence in Robotics

Bharath University, selaiyur

Chennai 600 0073.

ABSTRACT

Natural calamities do occur and they are unstoppable. But humans are becoming increasingly aware in the concept of intelligent rescue operations in such calamities so that precious life and material can be saved though calamities cannot be stopped. Still there are lots of disasters that occur all of a sudden and Earthquake is one such thing. Earthquakes produce a devastating effect and they see no difference between human and material. Hence a lot of times humans are buried among the debris and it become impossible to detect them. A timely rescue can only save the people who are buried and wounded.

Because of high rise buildings and other manmade structures urban and industrial areas are considered to be more susceptible to disasters. These disasters can be categorized into natural and human induced disasters. Natural disasters include floods, storms, cyclones, bush fire, earthquakes etc whereas human induced disasters include transportation accidents, industrial accidents, major fires etc.

During these emergency situations, and especially in urban disaster, in order to prevent loss of life and property, various essential services (like policeman, fire fighters and medical assistance etc) are deployed. They need to cooperate to save lives, protect structural infrastructure, and evacuate victims to safety. In such situations, human rescuers must make quick decisions under stress, and try to get victims to safety often at their own risk. They must gather determine the location and status of victims and the stability of the structures as quickly as possible so that medics and firefighters can enter the disaster area and save