Frag Out! Magazine
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CBRN add-ons for EOD UGVs UGVs more and more often replace humans when it comes to the most difficult and dangerous tasks and the scope of such applications is still growing. It shouldn't be then some- thing unusual that the Polish Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements (PIAP) designed a set of accessories, which allow robots perform recognition within the scope of the CBRN tasks. Expansion of applications for own prod- ucts is something natural for every com- pany that wants to expand the group of customers. Such company flexibly react to the needs of recipients. Such growing demand of many customers, especially the police and firefighters, enable PIAP to develop a series of accessories used for recognition during the CBRN risk. In the case of firefighters, especially of the unit of technical rescue services, the necessity for introduction of improve- ments has been an obvious obviousness – the robots used by firefighters have a frequent contact with substances of po- tential risk, while the quick identification of such substances allows to properly se- cure and neutralize the risk. In the case of police, the ability to iden- tify unconventional risks, the one that UGVS have, is also invaluable, especial- ly in the case of risk of terrorism. We are never 100% sure that the suspicious package will not have a so-called dirty bomb, which should be neutralized in a different way than the regular ones. In response to such situations, a series of accessories has been developed to be used for identification of CBRN risks that consists of five working probes and one additional component. The tools are: ground sampler, environmental swab, SPME adsorber, R-Sensor with an inte- grated display of EKO-C pollution (with a Geiger-Müller detector), and a set of forensic samplers. Additional accessories B Y : M i c h a ł S i t a r S k i ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES