An Indoor Localization Framework for Hybrid Rescue Teams

Localization capabilities represent fundamental support in emergencies situations. Although this topic has been largely investigated in the field of robotics and produced a large variety of applications, in emergency response scenarios still remain a challenge due to the demanding operating conditions. Here an indoor localization framework for rescue team is presented. The peculiarity of the proposed system rely on the integration between human operator and robots. Moreover a RFID tags network is used to structure the environment and reduce the uncertainty of the positioning system. The paper represents a preliminary study about rescue localization systems and proposed mainly a conceptual framework for localization.