{"id":21,"date":"2012-04-06T04:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2013-09-06T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T22:23:55","slug":"sarah-search-and-recovery-autonomous-hovercraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/sarah-search-and-recovery-autonomous-hovercraft\/","title":{"rendered":"SARAH: Search And Recovery Autonomous Hovercraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vS7gTz1yYN0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>S.A.R.A.H. (Search and Recovery Autonomous Hovercraft) randomly searches for metal; when she finds metal, her LEDs flash in excitement!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>About SARAH:<\/h1>\n<p>SARAH is an autonomous metal searching hovercraft- she searches an area in a random search pattern, using sonar and a gyroscope to avoid objects and control her movement. Her creation was inspired by the timeless image of the beachfront metal detector junkie; the type of person who might spend hours walking around, metal detector in hand, hoping for the find of their life. Now, perhaps, our fanatic may sit back and enjoy a tasty beverage while a robot does all the work. However, SARAH is not all fun and games. During her creation, it became clear she might also find a more noble cause- landmines injure and kill many people every year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmapper.org\/posters\/worldmapper_map290_ver5.pdf\">[pdf]<\/a>, but if scaled up, SARAH could help fight that. Even one or two car-sized SARAHs would be able to assist in finding and clearing out a considerable number of mines. Because SARAH floats, she would not trigger any of them.<\/p>\n<h2>Downloads<\/h2>\n<p>Complete report on SARAH (with code) [<a href=\"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Daniel_Collotte_IMDL_Final_report.pdf\">pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h2>Multimedia<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an early test of her search algorithm:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QmNPy7eIAPc?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nMore Pictures:<br \/>\n[dmalbum path=&#8221;\/wp-content\/uploads\/dm-albums\/SARAH\/&#8221;\/]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.A.R.A.H. (Search and Recovery Autonomous Hovercraft) randomly searches for metal; when she finds metal, her LEDs flash in excitement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-sarah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redbluefire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}