...Rob Bogue Purpose This paper aims to provide details of the robots used in surveillance, security and public safety applications. Design/methodology/approach Following a short introduction, this first considers the use of drones for military surveillance. It then discusses robots for site...

...Luca Bruzzone; Pietro Fanghella Purpose – The aim of the research is the development of a small-scale ground mobile robot for surveillance and inspection; the main design goals are mobility in indoor environments with step climbing ability, pivoting around a vertical axis and without oscillations...

...Grazia Cicirelli; Annalisa Milella; Donato Di Paola Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the use of passive RFID technology for the development of an autonomous surveillance robot. Passive RFID tags can be used for labelling both valued objects and goal‐positions that the robot has...

...Giuseppe Quaglia; Luca Bruzzone; Giorgio Bozzini; Riccardo Oderio; Roberto P. Razzoli Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a robot for surveillance able to move in structured and unstructured environments and able to overcome obstacles with high energetic efficiency...

.... Unmanned service robots are also found in commercial applications such as pipeline surveillance, crop monitoring and fish school location at sea. Practical implications Developers will be challenged to meet the need for improvements in speed, payload, sensor capabilities, autonomous operation...

...Tony Evans; Annalisa Milella; Grazia Cicirelli; Arcangelo Distante Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for environment mapping and surveillance by an autonomous mobile robot. Design/methodology/approach...