Do teams need to fully identify and interpret victim tags, either eye charts or hazmat labels, associated with a particular victim?
Answer – Teams need to “read” whichever tag is there. It will be prominently positions, but might require a particular viewing angle to see. Once the tag is in the field of view of your camera, the operator needs to read the smallest eye chart line, or recognize the hazmat label enough to circle the appropriate label on the victim data sheet. There are five or so hazmat labels to pick from. Even the autonomous robots must stop in front of the victim and wait for the operator and judge to read the label and fill in the sheet. But it is no more rigorous than that. You’ll get full credit if the label is in the field of view and your camera has sufficient resolution to correctly interpret the tag. You may also need to deploy enough light to see the tag. Variable illumination is a hard requirement for all search and rescue robots so you don’t wash out the scene.
