NIMS RD: A Rapidly Deployable Cable Based Robot

Author

Jordan, Brett L. ; Batalin, Maxim A. ; Kaiser, William J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2007

fDate

10-14 April 2007

Firstpage

144

Lastpage

150

Abstract

In this paper, we present NIMS RD, a rapidly deployable cable based robotic system developed for environmental monitoring applications. NIMS technology has been under continuous development resulting in several architectures including the NIMS RD system. This is an advance over previous systems in that its operation performance is improved, total system volume and mass is reduced, reliability is increased, and its deployment requires a smaller field team than for previous systems. The NIMS RD design will be described to highlight its new features and innovations. Also, NIMS RD field deployments will be discussed and some of the collected results displayed. Finally, future development directions for the NIMS RD system will also be discussed.

Keywords

mobile robots; NIMS RD robot; environmental monitoring; mobile robot; rapidly deployable cable based robot; Current measurement; Pollution measurement; Power cables; Propulsion; Prototypes; Rivers; Robotics and automation; Robots; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2007 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Roma

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0601-3

Electronic_ISBN

1050-4729

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363778

Filename

4209083