DocumentCode
1971263
Title
Working robots for nuclear power plant desasters
Author
Sugisaka, Masanori
Author_Institution
ALife Robot. Corp. Ltd., Oita, Japan
fYear
2011
fDate
May 31 2011-June 3 2011
Firstpage
358
Lastpage
361
Abstract
This document presents the exiting robots that are used in both American army in the operation of Iraq and Afghanistan and Japanese rescue teams formed after The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (1/17, 1955, 5:46:52 a.m. Magnitude 7.3). This document gives how some of existing robots could be used to survey the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after East Japan Earthquake (3/11, 2011, 2:46:18 p.m. Magnitude 9.0, The largest domestic record) and Tsunami (10 m).
Keywords
disasters; earthquakes; mobile robots; nuclear power stations; tsunami; American army; Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant; great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake; nuclear power plant disasters; rescue teams; working robots; Accidents; Companies; Earthquakes; Power generation; Service robots; Vehicles; damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant; earthquake; robots; tunami;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference (DEST), 2011 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Daejeon
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0871-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/DEST.2011.5936593
Filename
5936593
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