[b]Theodore Sumrall[/b] has co-authored a work on Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics. He has written about Micro hopping robots with IR sensors for disaster survivor detection.

This report covers the development of micro-robots which could penetrate buildings that have collapsed as a result of earthquake, terrorist attack, or other similar disasters. The publication focuses on the employment of Infrared Sensors and CO2 Sensors to locate survivors and later research includes the ability send a signal (through rubble, concrete, etc.) which would allow rescuers to know the location of survivors and be able to focus on their rescue process.

In the initial experiments, many small robots with optical and IR sensors have been developed and movement toward a human body under zero light conditions has been successfully demonstrated.

[b]About Theodore Sumrall[/b]

Theodore Sumrall is the senior vice president of engineering at GeoGenCo, LLC. He manages all the engineering related aspects of Geothermal and Waste Heat Recovery power generation projects within the US and internationally.

Theodore has more than 30 years of experience in domestic as well as international industries related to chemical, geothermal, oil and gas (Upstream, onshore and offshore, and midstream and downstream), petroleum, renewable energy, precious metals mining, and defense. He pursued Bachelor in Chemistry from Brigham Young University. Later, Theodore won a full government scholarship for Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He specializes in a variety of skills, from product development, research and development, process engineering, renewable energy, program management to chemical formulation optimization.