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Human Odometer Head: Scott Thayer Contact: Scott Thayer Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: FRC Associated lab/group: Software Systems Group

This page last updated - September 2005.

Project Description

Human Odometer is a system designed for situational awareness for firefighter tracking. Developed for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Awareness and also Vetronics Technology Integration, Human Odometer is a configurable set of devices used for localization and position measurement. Information about a subject?s movement is tracked through GPS, motion measurement, acceleration detection, height detection, and orientation which are all interconnected to each other through a PAN (Personal Area Network) via Bluetooth.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	David Kachmar	Project Assistant	dkachmar@andrew.cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• An Analysis of the Human Odometer
  U. Wong, C. Lyons, and S. Thayer
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2005. [Abstract]
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