The DRASB — Disaster Response And Surveillance Bot

There lies a thin line between success and failure while considering management of disasters. Any calamity, whether natural or otherwise, does not allow for the luxury of time, while being handled. Timely and precise diagnosis of the situation will lead to better evaluation of the resources needed to contain and counter the calamity. Disaster response teams must make decisions that can save innumerable number of lives instantaneously. Situations that require immediate and effective measures range be from fires to leakage of toxic or inflammable gases. The disaster management teams must rely on first hand insights of the affected zone and the data must be highly accurate and dependable. To this end, robots and machines are extremely valuable. The tolerance and capabilities of machines and automations are very high. They can easily venture into unknown and hazardous territory where humans cannot. In the following paper, we present an idea for the implementation of a robot christened “The DRASB - Disaster Response And Surveillance Bot”, which is one such robot that is both effective and advantageous in terms of use, efficiency, design and cost. It is instrumental in environment and situation analysis during the unfortunate case of an occurrence of a disaster.