PRE2023 3 Group11

Storm Wilms - 1839993

Tessa Groeneveld - 1738941

Abel Galambos - 1846647

Elektra Katsikis - 1826654

Romans Sinickis - 1748939

Tessa Cuijpers - 1836927

Potential sources :

Training the Elderly in the Use of Electronic Devices | SpringerLink

A wearable device for the elderly: A case study in Malaysia | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Innovation and technology for the elderly: Systematic literature review - ScienceDirect

Do‐it‐yourself as a means for making assistive technology accessible to elderly people: Evidence from the ICARE project - Mettler - 2023 - Information Systems Journal - Wiley Online Library

Digital health platforms for the elderly? Key adoption and usage barriers and ways to address them - ScienceDirect

Full article: What facilitates the acceptance of technology to promote social participation in later life? A systematic review (tandfonline.com)

Different subjects to focus on (for technology):

communication apps (eg. make contact with (grand)children easier)

entertainment (eg. the reading thing mentioned earlier)

services that are getting more and more digitalized (such as physical banks disappearing)

general approach to helping with technology (probably hard to realize)

rather than thinking of some device to help the problem, we could potentially also just focus on writing a paper on the issues that come with this, reasons for it, possible benefits of elders using tech etc. (as there are a lot of studies available for this)

assistive technologies (ones that for example improve healthcare)

Literature review/State of the art:

Novel exterior cover design for radiant heat resistance of firefighting robots in large-scale petrochemical complex fires | ROBOMECH Journal | Full Text (springeropen.com)

Summary/Relevance to topic:

A big issue for firefighting robots is the heat radiated by the fire. There are existing ways for increasing the resistance to heat, used for example with water cannon robots. However, the current method requires a lot of water, increasing the weight of the robot by a lot. This obviously reduces the mobility of the robot a lot. This paper aims to find another way to make these robots heat resistant, using much less water, by implementing an exterior cover. This paper goes into the design specifics of this cover. Even though the aim of our robot is not to assist in the firefighting itself, but rather locating potential survivors, this robot obviously still needs to be heat resistant. Therefore, this design proposal might also be valuable for our robot design.

Robot-aided human evacuation optimal path planning for fire drill in buildings - ScienceDirect

Summary/Relevance to topic:

This paper researches algorithms to assist humans with evacuating, by calculating the fastest routes out. In our robot design, we would like to implement not only the locating of potential survivors, but also a fastest route for the firefighters to reach this person. A similar algorithm as that discussed in the paper can be implemented in our design as well.

Fire Fighter Robot with Deep Learning and Machine Vision by Amit Dhiman, Neel Shah, Pranali Adhikari, Sayli Kumbhar, Inderjit Singh Dhanjal, Ninad Mehendale :: SSRN

Summary/Relevance to topic:

Here, rather than the use of for example heat sensors, AI deep learning and machine vision is used top detect fires. This already works with a very high accuracy. Extending this, the machine vision could potentially also be used to differentiate between fire and potential survivors. This might be more accurate than using merely heat and motion sensors to locate people, thus improving how well our design would work.

A Robot Swarm Assisting a Human Fire-Fighter: Advanced Robotics: Vol 25, No 1-2 (tandfonline.com)

Summary/Relevance to topic:

This paper goes into the GUARDIANS robot swarm, which is designed to assist firefighters in searching big warehouses for survivors to save. This is very similar to what our design aims to do, although we would like to apply this in housefires/other smaller fires as well, not just large warehouses. However. a lot of the technologies discussed in this paper, such as the wireless communication system, are very relevant to our design.

The role of robots in firefighting | Emerald Insight

Summary/Relevance to topic:

This paper goes into the state of the art, as robotics in firefighting is a fairly new technology. So far, the most prevalent technologies include: all-terrain vehicles to assist the actual fire-fighters with getting to and operating at dangerous locations, also giving the firefighters a better overview of the situation by using sensors, and drones that are either equipped with fire extinguishing materials, can hold up a hose (both used for high up buildings), or to again create more awareness of the situation for the firefighters. This state of the art review can help assessing what elements of our design already exist, what needs to be improved, and what is still missing.