Abstract
There is significant potential for the use of unmanned remote control vehicles in sampling and measuring radiological events. No attempt to standardise sampling and measurement methods using these types of vehicles has been made so far. Common standards would simplify the use of remote control vehicles in an emergency scenario and would thus be very valuable in critical infrastructure protection. The main advantage of using unmanned systems in radiological events is the protection of the involved human personnel. This document focuses on possible scenarios for remote control radiation measurements and sampling using unmanned systems. We identified scenarios that can be separated in two categories. First, there are prevention scenarios where unmanned systems can be used to prevent incidents involving radioactive material and deterrence. Second, there are response scenarios where unmanned systems can be used to gather information after incidents with radioactive material have occurred. We further condensed three main tasks (spatial mapping, search of sources and sampling) for unmanned systems in the identified scenarios. In addition, this report summarises possible standards for unmanned systems. A very widely recognised standard collection of software frameworks for robot software development is the robot operating system. Further important standards concerning communication with robots and control of unmanned systems are battle management language, interoperability profile and joint architecture for unmanned systems.
