Title :
Proposal of a Rescue Robot System in Nuclear-Power Plants -Rescue Activity via Small Vehicle Robots -
Author :
Iwano, Yuki ; Osuka, K. ; Amano, Hideharu
Author_Institution :
Dept of Syst. Functional Sci., Kobe Univ.
Abstract :
We discuss a conceptual design of rescue robots against nuclear plant accidents. We claim that the rescue robots in nuclear plants should have the following properties. (1) The size is small. (2) The structure is simple. (3) The number of the robots is large. This paper studies the rescue robots to rescue people in an area polluted with radioactive leakage in nuclear power institutions. In particular, we propose the rescue system which using the group of small traction robots, set the posture of fainted victims to easy to carry, and carry them to the safety space with the mobile robot for the stretcher composition
Keywords :
accidents; emergency services; fission reactor accidents; fission reactor safety; mobile robots; nuclear power stations; mobile robot; nuclear plant accidents; nuclear power institutions; nuclear-power plants; radioactive leakage; rescue robot system; traction robots; vehicle robots; Accidents; Humans; Mechanical engineering; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Pollution; Power generation; Proposals; Space technology; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics, 2004. ROBIO 2004. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenyang
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8614-8
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2004.1521781
