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nated areas, where the risk for people and dogs are impending. The logistics seems
simple but the interaction between a number of actors in a chaotic environment is
indeed a complex task, Murphy (2008). Instead of risking human lives at dan-
gerous scenes, the network of specialist actors comprising of the latest technology
capabilities will complement the human involvement by perceiving the sensing
information by intelligent artificial perceptual systems. This is however a chal-
lenging task, where the overall solutions have not yet been found in the literature.
Improvements of specific agents in the network are however, an area of research
and technology advances can be seen relatively frequently, e.g., inorganised robot
search and rescue competitions.
The ultimate goal in such an intelligent network composed of different specific
skills, is when each object can be regarded as a unit with human-like skills, per-
formance and communication abilities. This means that each agent behaves and
relates in a similar manner to a human, and no difference in performance may be
discovered from the communication in the network. As mentioned earlier in Par-
lin (2007) the movable perceptual and sensing agent may with advantage be acting
as an involved individual, observing and reporting from the hazardous environ-
ment. This is considered to be a vital part of the network's intelligent performance.
The team manager will, at this moment, make decisions based on the remote in-
formation gained from the different available sensor systems, i.e., agents, in an
information flow network. The exterior system acts as a perceptual sensor system
providing essential data to someone collecting, sorting and analysing and priori-
tises the information. The information will then be integrated with other sources
and merged together into proper decisions, e.g., chemical sensing controlled by
mobile robots, Lilienthal (2006).
The first responding team will indeed have the need for technology
improvements in order to complement the picture of the situation and evaluating
other essential information. This methodology of a remote sensing concept cer-
tainly improves the performance of the information flow extracted from received
information from specific agents' ability to present the specific data.
Especially,
the remote perceptual sensor system approach would have a
focus on:
localisation
and search path in an environment with no or minor infrastructure
such as a collapsed building, as provided to the involved agents.
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agents' information flow
across an
ad-hoc
network that are able to make proper
localisation on the basis given, for delivering the most relevant and current
information in time to other agents and to update the pictorial map.
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using global information
available in the network to provide an extensive source
of information base.
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interacting with management
(human or artificial system) in the information sys-
tem and gathered between the active agents involved.
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and last but indeed not least, the
information logistics
is of most importance. Since
the use of multi-agent structure involving humans with special skills, animals
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