02117nab a2200217 4500 20260520001111.0 260224s2015 xxu ing Inglés Firefighting Robot Stereo Infrared Vision and Radar Sensor Fusion for Imaging through Smoke jul. 2015 14/09/2015 ; 14/09/2015 22 p. ; 823-845 Transcripción del resúmen realizada por el autor: Firefighting robots are actively being researched to reduce firefighter injuries and deaths as well as increase their effectiveness on performing tasks. There has been difficulty in making firefighting robots autonomous because the commonly used sensors for autonomous robot navigation do not perform well in fire smoke-filled environments where low visibility and high temperature are present. In order to overcome these limitations, a multi-spectral vision system was developed that uses sensor fusion between stereo thermal infrared (IR) vision and frequency modulated-continuous wave (FMCW) radar to locate objects through zero visibility smoke in real-time. In this system, the stereo IR vision was used to obtain 3-D information about the scene while the radar provided more accurate distances of objects in the field of view. Through globally matching radar objects with those in the 3-D image, the accuracy of the stereo IR vision map was updated removing the far-field inaccuracy of the stereo IR as well as ghost objects created due to stereo mismatch. The system was sufficiently fast to provide real-time matching of objects in the scene allowing for dynamic reaction object tracking and locating. Through large-scale fire experiments with and without smoke in the field of view, the distance error for the stereo IR vision was reduced from 1% to 19.0% to 1% to 2% due to sensor fusion of the stereo IR with FMCW radar. 4 Fire Technology 51 ARTICULO Kim, Jong-Hwan 54826 Starr, Joseph W. 54827 Lattimer, Brian Y. 52407 189185 189185 0 0 0 0 257004 BAAB BAAB 2026-03-06 200061417 0 200061417 2026-03-06 00:19:24 2026-03-06 ARTICULO