Title :
SnakeFighter - Development of a Water Hydraulic Fire Fighting Snake Robot
Author :
Liljeback, P. ; Stavdahl, Oyvind ; Beitnes, Anders
Author_Institution :
Dept. for Appl. Cybern., SINTEF ICT, Trondheim
Abstract :
This paper presents the SnakeFighter concept and describes the generic element within this concept in the form of a water hydraulic snake robot. Applications of a SnakeFighter system are presented with focus on fire intervention tasks. The development of a water hydraulic snake robot that demonstrates the concept is described. The robot is the first water hydraulic snake robot ever constructed. The paper identifies design challenges of a complete SnakeFighter system and describes future research on this concept
Keywords :
control system synthesis; fires; hydraulic control equipment; mobile robots; water; SnakeFighter; design challenges; water hydraulic fire fighting snake robot; Cooling; Cybernetics; Fires; Hoses; Humans; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Mobile robots; Propulsion; Robustness; Fire fighting; Robot; Snake; Water hydraulics;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2006. ICARCV '06. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0341-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4214-042-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICARCV.2006.345311
