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Experimental Validation of a Robotic Stretcher for Casualty Evacuation in a Man-Made Disaster Exercise Pastor-Martín, Francisco Mandow, Anthony Serón-Barba, Javier Pastor-Martín, Francisco García-Cerezo, Alfonso José Robots Catástrofes This paper describes a cooperative search and rescue exercise where an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is used by a military rescue team for extraction and evacuation of a casualty from an unsafe man-made disaster area. This experimental validation was performed within a full-scale emergency response exercise organized on June 2019 by the Chair of Safety, Emergencies and Disasters at Universidad de Málaga (Spain). With this purpose, we adapted the skid-steer Rambler robot to carry a stretcher with appropriate roll-in and locking mechanisms. The mission consisted of two phases: first, extraction from the hot zone was performed with remote teleoperation using a dummy; second, casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) to an aeromedical evacuation point was done with sightline teleoperation moving an actual volunteer. The realistic one-shot exercise was performed by actual rescue personnel with no previous experience with the robotic system. The paper shares insight and lessons learned from this concept validation experience. 2020-11-20T10:43:58Z 2020-11-20T10:43:58Z 2020-11-20T10:43:58Z 2020-11 conference output Mandow, A., Serón, J., Pastor, F., García-Cerezo, A., "Experimental Validation of a Robotic Stretcher for Casualty Evacuation in a Man-Made Disaster Exercise", En: IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), pp 1-5. 2020. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/20416 eng 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR2020). Abu Dhabi (Online Conference) 4-6 November 2020 open access IEEE