Design and implementation of a smart earthquake rescue robot to enhance rescue operations
Khattab O. Saravana Balaji B. Al-Kadri M.O. Alsaeed A. Alofaisan A. Aboutamar J. Alharbi H. Shikfa A.
December 2025Nature Research
Scientific Reports
2025#15Issue 1
In the wake of catastrophic earthquakes, rescue operations encounter significant obstacles in locating and reaching individuals trapped under debris. This study introduces the Smart Earthquake Rescue Robot (SERR) prototype, a cutting-edge solution designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of earthquake rescue missions. The SERR is a mobile robot with advanced features, including live video streaming through an integrated camera, Grid-Eye temperature detection, and provisions for communication via built-in speakers and microphones, although these audio communication capabilities are pending implementation in the current prototype. It can be remotely controlled using a smartphone application, offering a safer and more efficient method for conducting rescue operations. Unlike recent advances discussed in the literature, SERR uniquely combines visual, thermal, and audio data with a multi-modal Convolutional Neural Network with Long Short-Term Memory (CNN-LSTM) model (RescueNet), achieving high accuracy (0.94), precision (0.90), recall (0.96), and F1-score (0.92) in detecting survivors, as validated by MATLAB simulations using USGS-PAGER data. The SERR’s rapid runtime (35 ms) highlights its promise as a tool to improve earthquake rescue outcomes.
Earthquake rescue operations , Human detection , Smart earthquake rescue robot (SERR) , Thermal imaging , Wireless robotics
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Doha, Kuwait
Department of Computing, De Montfort University Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan
College of Computing and Information Technology, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha, Qatar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Computing
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