Abstract : This report describes the feasibility of a system for using sensors, artificial intelligence and robotics, imaging or other means to improve evacuation of soldiers from the battlefield. Feasible approaches are based on either wearable individual sensors and/or proximate remote sensors (including radiant energy imaging). By far the most promising approach is one in which each soldier wears a small device for life-signs monitoring. The device would resemble a dogtag, wristwatch, or belt knuckle (for example) and would acquire data such as pulse, respiration, and temperature. Upon electronic interrogation, the stored information could be broadcast to a central facility. Problems of security and acceptability to the soldier must be dealt with, but these problems seem amendable to reasonable solutions.
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