Title :
Working robots for nuclear power plant desasters
Author :
Sugisaka, Masanori
Author_Institution :
ALife Robot. Corp. Ltd., Oita, Japan
fDate :
May 31 2011-June 3 2011
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/DEST.2011.5936593
