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Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) is a multi-disciplined field responsible for helping in emergencies. These emergencies include natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and storms. Other emergencies include building collapses, hazardous materials incidents, mine collapses, trench incidents, and terrorist attacks. USAR tasks include locating, extricating, and providing immediate medical treatment to trapped victims. While these rescue tasks are critical to victims’ survival, they are not easy to execute. USAR is constantly looking for safer and better ways to conduct search and rescue. Recent technological advances within the USAR field have equipped professionals with new sensors and tools that better assist them in locating and extricating victims. However, in any rescue situation, USAR professionals are constantly looking for improved methods and equipment to assist with USAR tasks. Robotic technology is one such improvement.
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A breakthrough tool for underwater projects, VideoRay ROV is significantly lighter, less expensive, and more maneuverable and compact than other remotely operated vehicles. With a 250-foot tether, portable power, and a weight of just 8 pounds, VideoRay helps you expand the range of your underwater studies.
ASR and VideoRay provides excellent video quality, is extremely easy to control in the water, is small and non-invasive, very portable, and requires a minimal power supply. Safely operated and transported by a single person, VideoRay is the ROV you have been waiting for.
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Often the inspection of many structures requires engineers to fit into tight spaces or put themselves in compromising situations. Due to a system's size, location, shape or structure, they can be particularly difficult to inspect or repair. ASR's small, shoe-box sized, robots can fit where many inspectors can't (or shouldn't) go. Mobile robots are perfect candidates to replace today's dangerous inspection systems.
Read how our products can help.
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High quality images from our remote camera equipment allow port and border security personnel to examine suspicious cargo, containers and hidden compartments when searching for a variety of contraband.
In addition, our products have been used for clandestine operations, remote surveillance and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operations. The rugged design and portability of the systems ensures reliable operation when it matters most.
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The many demands for remote inspection capability within the hydroelectric power generation industry can be met with finesse by ASR products.
Our easy-to-use submersible systems are ideal for dam and turbine inspections. The transportable nature of our products make them ideal for use at remote sites. Surface control and clear video images are the distinguishing features of our camera and crawler systems.
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ASR's remote inspection equipment is used extensively in nuclear plant outages, maintenance and emergency situations. Cameras and crawlers are used in and around reactors, steam generators and other plant infrastructure to quickly identify and evaluate problems or trouble areas. |
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Why take on the risks and expense of human dives? Control fishery operations by seeing what's happening beneath the surface. Without divers, cut fish loss through net inspections, find expensive lost equipment, and perform regulatory compliance work.
Slip the 8-pound VideoRay (remotely operated vehicle) into the water from a raft or land. With you at the remote controls, the VideoRay sub travels through the water, capturing crisp video.
Survey sea beds, inspect and sample polluted sites without spreading disease, recover morts, and check the condition of cages, quays, pipelines, cables, hulls, and moorings.
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Explore crime scenes and accidents without endangering or disturbing the evidence.
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When pipeline surveys are required, the VideoRay is an excellent tool for inspecting the path and ocean floor. Using a sonar along with the VideoRay, the operator can carefully check all underwater features. Because the flight is recorded, engineers and scientists can carefully review the footage at a later date. Small and not invasive, the VideoRay can fly close to the bottom without disturbing sediment. The VideoRay is more portable than other work class or inspection class ROVs and does not require special mobilization.
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ASR's underwater and mobile robots can both be used in the scientific and research community.
Mobile robotics is studied around the world. Our platforms are used in reseach at The University of south Flroida and The University of Massachusetts - Lowell.
Proven in the study of Sharks of the Great White North, Whale Sharks, Atlantic Cod, and coral reefs, the VideoRay is a practical tool for scientists and biologists doing aquatic research. It can to go deep into frigid waters to places divers cannot or would prefer not to go. As shark filmer Larry Banbrick of the Discovery Channel Canada says, "When you're working in a hostile underwater environment like the high north, having the VideoRay act as a second pair of eyes is invaluable."
For short or long term monitoring of most aquatic systems, the VideoRay is easy to control, small, non-invasive, and does not produce bubbles that scare fish. It is portable and requires a minimal power supply and no special mobilization. Video is produced in NTSC or PAL formats, and special high-resolution and wide-angle lense cameras are available.
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Proven in the USS Arizona, a B-29 airplane, and in the search for the Space Shuttle Columbia debris, the VideoRay is an ideal tool for wreck surveys and searches. Attach a sonar to locate the target, then send the VideoRay in to identify the target. Or, send in VideoRay to help chart your course before you send in divers. The VideoRay can get into tight spaces, identify hazards, and save airtime for divers.
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Let them talk. And they will. When you’ve got a VideoRay onboard, you’re in style with the smallest, slickest swimming video camera ever. Slip the sub in the water to watch marine life as you cruise over reefs. Take a quick look at the prop and anchor, without getting wet. Drive the VideoRay from the deck like an underwater remote control car. See the vivid video on your ship’s TV screen. Your guests and your kids will be endlessly entertained. And you will be endlessly cool.
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