Invited Talks

Invited talk of Prof. John Mander was canceled

bacause his father passed away and he can not come to Japan.

Schedule of November 2 is changed.

November 2

13:40-14:30
Prof. Hajime Asama (The University of Tokyo)
"Utilization of Remote-Controlled Machine Technology for the Accident of the Nuclear Power Plant"

(Canceled. schedule is changed)
Prof. John Mander (Texas A&M University)
"Emergency Informatics for Post-Disaster Resource Leveling"

14:40-15:10
Ms. Michiko Nakamura (The Asahi Shimbun)
"How do we report a disaster?"

15:40-16:30
Mr. Hisayoshi Tsuchida (Fire and Disaster Management Bureau, City of Kitakyushu)
"To Save Every Life To Be Saved"

16:40-17:30
Dr. Toshiharu Makishima (International Medical Relief Department of Japanese, Red Cross Medical Center)
"To Keep the Sense of Safety and Security: Psycho-Socio-Physical Support in the Great East Japan Earthquake"

November 3

13:10-14:00
Prof. Norio Okada (Kyoto University)
"- A New Agenda for Integrated Disaster Risk Management: What and how could we learn from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster"

14:10-15:00
Prof. Robin R. Murphy (Texas A&M University)
"Human-Robot Interaction in the Wild: Land, Marine, and Aerial Robots at Fukushima and Sendai"

15:10-16:00
Prof. Yasuhiro Otomo (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
"The huge tsunami disaster -How the Japanese DMAT stood against -"

Utilization of Remote-Controlled Machine Technology for the Accident of the Nuclear Power Plant

Prof. Hajime Asama The University of Tokyo Abstract: The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami occurred in March 11, 2011, and the Accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant happened due to the earthquake and the tsunami. Lots of needs of robot technology (RT) arose in the situation of such disasters. The obotics Task Force for Anti-Disaster (ROBOTAD) was established in March of 2011, which is a group of research scientist and engineer volunteers on robotics who have strong will to contribute in the disaster situation. The ROBOTAD contributed strongly to the Remote Control/Robotics Project Team, which was appointed by the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company, where various technical discussions have been made to apply remote-controlled machine technology and robot technology to the disaster situation of the nuclear power plant. In this presentation, activities for the response and recovery of the nuclear power plant utilizing remote-controlled machine technology and robot technology are introduced. Speaker Biography: Hajime Asama received his B. S., M. S., and Dr. Eng in Engineering from the University of Tokyo, in 1982, 1984 and 1989, respectively. He was Research Associate, Research Scientist, an Senior Research Scientist in RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan) from 1986 to 2002. He became a professor of RACE (Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering), the University of Tokyo in 2002, and a professor of School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 2009. He received JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers) Robotics and Mechatronics Division Academic Achievement Award in 2001, RSJ (Robotics Society of Japan) Best paper Award, JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Award in 2009, etc. He is a vice-president of Robotics Society of Japan since 2011. He was an AdCom member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2007 to 2009, an editor of Journal of International Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, Journal of Field Robotics, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems. He is a Fellow of JSME since 2004 and RSJ since 2008.

Emergency Informatics for Post-disaster Resource Leveling (Canceled)

Prof. John B Mander Zachry Professor of Design and Construction Integration Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Texas A&M University, USA. Abstract: Following a severe catastrophic event, there is a need to rapidly provide resources to enable communities to respond and recover as quickly as possible. Therefore, rapid estimates of the extent and severity of damage are desperately needed, and hence inferences can be made regarding the likelihood of death and the duration of downtime. Immediately following a major event, there tends to be an acute knowledge vacuum. Owners immediately wonder: How are my workers; does my structure still stand; and am I still able to operate my business in the affected location? Pre-disaster engineering risk models can be built, but these are general in nature, and lack specifics of exactly what is damaged and by how much. To help fill the knowledge vacuum, there is a need to develop event-specific Emergency Informatics. One of the key objectives of Emergency Informatics is to make rapid pronouncements regarding the degree of damage in order to reduce death and minimize downtime; more specifically to aid in first response and longer term recovery efforts. Using normal pre- and immediate post-event civil/structural engineering analysis it is only possible to obtain somewhat of a vague idea. This is largely due to the compounding nature of all the various types of uncertainties involved in any assessments. Therefore, in order to provide a clear view of where resources need to be deployed there is no substitute for "boots on the ground". But for safety reasons, this is often neither wise nor physically possible to rush in with an ill-prepared action plan. A contemporary way of dealing with this class of problem is to implement various types of robotic systems to provide much needed detailed information to different levels and classes of responders and stakeholders. Due to the extent of the uncertainties inherent in any such predictive models, results from remote sensing should in the first instance only serve as an initial guide; this may be able to gauge the geographic extent of response necessary, and the quantum of resources needed for recovery. To sharpen the image of the damage assessment and to remove some measures of uncertainty and ambiguity, a top-down series of post-disaster observations need to be conducted. For example: (1) "big picture" overview and reconnaissance using satellites and repurposed UAVs such as large-scale military drones; (2) "close up" remote assessment for high-rise buildings and other very large structures, but from a distance also using UAVs but of a much smaller type such as small drones of the quad-rotor type; (3) solicited information from "Boots on the ground" trusted responders, police, fire, CERTS; and (4) utilizing unsolicited information from social network "crowd sourcing" data. Had each of these approaches already been developed to a mature state, the response to recent catastrophic events such as the Christchurch NZ earthquakes and the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami may well have been considerably more effective. Clearly research, development, training and implementation using these modern technologies are essential for a more effective response and recovery in the future. Each of these measures is currently being investigated with initiatives at Texas A&M University and its partners. Speaker Biography: Prof. John B. Mander is the inaugural Zachry Professor in Design and Construction Integration within the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. Educated in his native New Zealand, Prof. Mander received his PhD degree in 1984 and BE (Hons) in 1979 from the University of Canterbury. He has had a career of some 30 years in civil/structural engineering research and practice. Initially employed by New Zealand Railways, he had a decade of experience in the design and construction aspects of bridges, culverts and tunnels. As a researcher, first at SUNY Buffalo (1988-2000), Prof. Mander conducted research on the seismic performance of new and existing bridge systems. More recently, when domiciled in New Zealand (2000-2006) his research and teaching efforts were focused developing damage avoidance design strategies for building and bridge systems and the financial loss estimation under extreme seismic and flooding events. Since his return to the United States in 2007, he has continued with these themes, as well broadening to deal with post disaster response and recovery emergency informatics. A Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, Dr. Mander is a past Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.

To Save Every Life To Be Saved

Mr. Hisayoshi Tsuchida Crisis Management Department, Fire and Disaster Management Bureau, City of Kitakyushu Abstract: On the 11th of March, the most disastrous earthquake and tsunami in record hit the northeast region in Japan. We should resolve to utilize these experiences for disaster prevention measures in accordance with the wish of our comrades who risked their lives to save victims as many as possible. In this talk, I will present visual records of the tsunami to show its unbridled violence. I will also introduce three projects that City of Kitakyushu has been executing in order to 'save every life to be saved'. I hope that our reports open discussions of researchers on this field and bring hints for pragmatic methodology for disaster prevention and management. Speaker Biography: 1978: staff of Fire and Disaster Management Bureau, City of Kitakyushu 2002: chief of Section of Disaster Prevention at Kokura-Minami Branch 2008: chief of Section of Disaster Prevention at Kokura-Kita Branch 2009: chief of Section of Disaster Prevention of the Bureau 2010: chief of Crisis Management Department 2007-2009: Research Support Committee of the Project for Safty Technology in MEXT 2009: Examination Committee of Advanced Rescue Devices in MIAF

Advancing Sciences and Engineering to Enhance Mutual Survivability and Communication Capacity- A New Agenda for Integrated Disaster Risk Management: what and how could we learn from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster

Prof. Norio Okada Integrated Disaster Risk Management Research Center for Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University Abstract: It seems just too early to make overall assessment of the consequences and impacts of the latest Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster which heavily struck and devastated the eastern Japan on March 11th, 2011. Even so, this paper attempts to address what the speaker considers as one of the essential lessons to be learned from this unprecedented type of disaster which occurred to this highly modernized society. It is about taking a new challenges to highlight on how to mutually survive and communicate in the event of extreme events as well exemplified by the last disaster. From this viewpoint the speaker first introduces the audience the last decade-long efforts to develop a new cross-disciplinary science and engineering called "integrated disaster risk management", or "IDRiM" for short. Then it is also pointed out that a new challenge is needed by scientists and engineers to advance and extend their research areas by more explicitly addressing how to empower people to enhance their mutual survivability and communication capacity under extreme events. It is also mentioned that the speaker expects "sciences and engineering for informatics and communication" to take up this emerging issue as a new dimension. In conclusion the speaker calls for collaborative efforts to be made between IDRiM and "sciences and engineering for informatics and communication" . Speaker Biography: EDUCATION: 1977 Received Dr. Eng. (Civil Engineering) Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University. 1972 Received M. Eng. (Civil Engineering) Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University. Graduated with a B.Eng. degree from the Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University. HONORS: Honoris Causa in Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, May, 1995. JSCE (Japan Society for Civil Engineers) Research Awards, May, 1995. Japan Society for Risk Research Award, Nov. 2006. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1972-1977 Research Associate Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University. 1977-19 86 Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University. 1978-1980 Research Scholar Resources and Environment, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. 1981-1982 Adjunct Research Scholar National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japanese Government. 1981 Visiting Scholar East-West Center, Honolulu, USA. 1982-1983 Adjunct Associate Professor Institute of Economic Studies, Kyoto University. 1983-1985 Adjunct Associate ProfessorWater Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. 1986-1993 Full Professor Department of Social Systems Engineering,Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University. 1987- 1991 Adjunct Professor Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada 1991-1993 Adjunct Professor Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. 1993-1996 Full Professor Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. 2005- Full Professor Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University 2009-2011 Director Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems MAJOR INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES (RECENT): 2004-to date Member of Science and Technology Council, International Risk Governance Council, Geneva 2006-to date Member of High Level Advisory Board of the OECD Network Committee, OECD, Paris MAJOR ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES (RECENT): 1994 - 2010 date Council Member of Japan Society for Risk Research 2006-2008 President of Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science 2007- 2009 Chairman of Japan Council of Natural Disasters 2008-2009 Council Member of JSCE (Japan Society for Civil Engineers) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES 2002 Decision and Risk, Academic Press, Editor May 2006- International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, INDERSCIENCE, Vice Chairman /guest editor Oct 2007- International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, INDERSCIENCE, Editor, Dec 2007- Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, ROUTELEDGE, editor

The Huge Tsunami Disaster
- How the Japanese DMAT Stood Against -

Yasuhiro Otomo M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Acute Critical Care and Disaster Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Director, Shock Trauma and Emergency medical center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University hospital of Medicine Abstract: A large number of Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs) were dispatched from all over Japan to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. This earthquake disaster, in which a huge tsunami struck modern cities, is anexperience that humanity has encountered for the first time. The National Police Agency reported that across Japan 12,431 people were killed, 15,153 are missing, and 2,869 were injured due to the earthquake as of April 10. By contrast, in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, 6,434 people were killed, 3 were missing, and 43,792 were injured, which indicates that the morbidity/mortality ratios are 0.10 and 6.80 in the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, respectively, revealing that a characteristic of the tsunami disaster is that the number of injured people is extremely small when compared to the number of people killed (including missing people). Summary of the activities of DMATs A large number of DMATs were able to gather quickly at the devastated area during the ultra-acute phase; however, the severe patients that required life-saving treatments did not occur in the large numbers and the required activities of the DMATs were thus limited. This author would like to highlight the points as follows: 1. The DMAT system, which is responsible for the medical treatment in the ultra-acute phase, worked adequately. DMATs' activities were proved to be able to be deployed very quickly, in a large scale and in an organized manner. The points are: a) The assembly points were set up clearly. b) The DMAT supervisors were placed in each of the prefectural governments, the decision-making bodies of the devastated area. c) A Emergency Medical Information System (EMIS) was fully utilized. d) Supervising DMATs were placed at each operational bases. As a result, more than 300 DMATs (about 1500 personnel) were able to enter the devastated area within 24 hours, start the operations, expand and conduct the activities near immediately, and share the information about the medical needs during the ultra-acute phase. 2. Medical needs were not high during the ultra-acute phase (a characteristic of tsunami disasters) The need for the life-saving medical treatment in the ultra-acute phase was actually not very high. On the other hand, the period of rescue was prolonged because the impacts of the disaster were very severe and extremely broad. As a result, the disaster medical care in the acute phase was also prolonged, and the operation period, which was at first expected to be about 72 hours after the occurrence of disaster, had to be extended substantially. Speaker Biography: 1984: Graduated from Nippon Medical School Resident, Nippon Medical School Hospital 1991: Deputy Director, Emergency Medical Center, Aizu Central Hospital, Fukushima, Japan 1992: Ph.D. (Dr. of Medical Science) degree awarded 1995: Chief, 2nd Division of Surgery, National Disaster Medical Center 2002: Director, Trauma and Critical Care Medical Center, National Disaster Medical Center 2006: Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Tutorials

November 1

17:00-19:00 Evening Tutorial
Prof. Andreas Birk (Jacobs University)
"3D Mapping for Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics"

November 5

13:30-17:30 Tutorial
Prof. Robin R. Murphy (Texas A&M University)
"Introduction to Rescue Robotics"

3D Mapping for Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics

Prof. Dr. Andreas Birk School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Abstract: Maps are important for Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) for two different general reasons. First of all, maps generated by response robots are important mission deliverables. They support a detailed situation assessment of the operation site with up to date, detailed information. Second, maps are an important basis for intelligent functionalities on the robots themselves to support (semi-)autonomous operations to aid the operator, e.g., for shared autonomy, one-to-many operator-to-robot ratios, or to bridge radio drop-out zones. Response missions tend to take place in complex unstructured environments, hence 3D mapping is of particular interest in this domain. The presentation gives an overview of the state of the art in 3D mapping with respect to suited sensors, 3D representations, 6 degrees of freedom (6-dof) registration methods, and 6-dof Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). In addition to the overview of 3D mapping in general, special emphasis is given to the particular needs of SSRR missions like the aspects of offline versus online processing, the compactness of representations, or the role of odometry based dead-reckoning to supplement registration. Speaker Biography: Andreas Birk is a professor (associate) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen where he leads the robotics group. He started at Jacobs University in Fall 2001 while rejecting an offer for a professorship (C3) at the University of Rostock. Before he joined Jacobs University, he held a research-mandate of the Flemish Society for Applied Research, IWT. He was in addition from October 1997 on appointed as visiting professor (docent) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He also worked as a visiting professor (C3) at the Universitat Koblenz-Landau in the winter-semester of 1999/2000. During the almost six years at the VUB, Andreas Birk was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Lab, which he joined as Postdoc in April 1996. In 1995 he received his doctorate from the Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, where he previously studied Computer Science from fall 1989 to spring 1993.

Introduction to Rescue Robotics

Prof. Robin R. Murphy Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, Texas A&M University Abstract: This tutorial will introduce students and researchers to the rescue robotics domain, enabling them to apply their research results to disaster response and recovery or to re-direct their research. The focus will be on quantifying what makes rescue robotics different from IED or military robots, including adoption, reinforced by videos and data from actual disasters. The tutorial will consist of six modules. The introductory module will i) introduce attendees to the prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery cycle nomenclature and general response and recovery culture; ii) compare the technological needs, environmental conditions, and operational constraints of urban search and rescue (building collapses, terrorism, hurricanes, and earthquakes), wilderness search and rescue, underground mine rescue, nuclear responses, and recovery; iii) provide an international history of deployments from all known agencies and lessons learned, and iv) describe the used and desired levels of autonomy. Three modules will discuss the unique applications and research issues for unmanned aerial, marine, and ground vehicles, followed by a human-robot interaction module. Each module will amplify the material through case studies and will identify open research issues. The sixth module will offer suggestions on conducting field research, interacting with response professionals, describe legal and ethical considerations, and discuss how to plan and manage logistics. Speaker Biography: Robin Roberson Murphy is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M and directs the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue and its Roboticists Without Borders program. She holds a B.M.E. in mechanical engineering, a M.S. and Ph.D in computer science in 1980, 1989, and 1992, respectively, from Georgia Tech. She has over 100 publications in artificial intelligence, robotics, and human-robot interaction including the textbook "Introduction to AI Robotics" and is finishing a new book "Rescue Robotics" (MIT Press, expected 2011). She is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves on numerous governmental boards, including the Defense Science Board, and has recently served on the HRI steering committee.