Rescue Robot Contest as a Foundation for Construction of Rescue Engineering

Abstract

In every year and in allover the world, we have great disasters such as great earthquakes or flood disasters and so on. In 1995, we had a great earthquake in the Kansai region in Japan. After the earthquake, the researches of rescue system have been started. In this note, we discuss a new engineering field named Rescue Engineering. This field is going to construct to backup the movement of researches of rescue systems. And to backup the construction of the Rescue Engineering, we propose a new robot contest concerned with rescue activity. This contest is called Rescue Robot Contest.