Title :
A safer way to search disaster sites
Author :
Weston, Jennifer
fDate :
9/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
North Carolina State University engineers design a pipe-crawling robot to help save lives. Two versions of the modular observation crawler and sensing instrument: MOCASIn I and MOCASIn II, which are robots that can crawl through six-inch piping, have been developed
Keywords :
disasters; mobile robots; robot vision; CCD image sensor; MOCASIn; North Carolina State University; disaster sites; modular observation crawler; pipe-crawling robot; robot vision; Buildings; Contracts; Design engineering; Electrical engineering computing; Explosives; Gases; Intelligent robots; Navigation; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation;
Journal_Title :
Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE
