Title :
Gamma-ray irradiation test of electric components of rescue mobile robot Quince
Author :
Nagatani, Keiji ; Kiribayashi, Seiga ; Okada, Yoshito ; Otake, Kazuki ; Yoshida, Kazuya ; Tadokoro, Satoshi ; Nishimura, Takeshi ; Yoshida, Tomoaki ; Koyanagi, Eiji ; Fukushima, Mineo ; Kawatsuma, Shinji
Author_Institution :
Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
Abstract :
On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit eastern Japan, particularly the Tohoku area. Since then, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has been facing a crisis. To respond to this situation, we began a project to redesign our mobile robots for disaster response missions. A key issue to be addressed was to check the radiation hardness of the electric components of our robot. Initially, no information was available in this regard. Therefore, we conducted gamma-ray irradiation tests for the electric components using cobalt-60. In this paper, we introduce the procedure for the irradiation test and report the results of the test.
Keywords :
disasters; earthquake engineering; emergency services; fission reactor accidents; gamma-ray effects; mobile robots; nuclear power stations; service robots; tsunami; AD 2011 03 11; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station; Tohoku area; cobalt-60; disaster response missions; earthquake; eastern Japan; electric components; emergency response; gamma ray irradiation test; nuclear accident; radiation hardness; rescue mobile robot Quince; tsunami; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Lead; Power generation; Radiation effects; Robots; Sensors; Rescue robot; gamma-ray irradiation test;
Conference_Titel :
Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-770-2
DOI :
10.1109/SSRR.2011.6106756
