Title :
Rescue robots at the Collapse of the municipal archive of Cologne City: A field report
Author :
Linder, Thorsten ; Tretyakov, Viatcheslav ; Blumenthal, Sebastian ; Molitor, Peter ; Holz, Dirk ; Murphy, Robin ; Tadokoro, Satoshi ; Surmann, Hartmut
Author_Institution :
Schloss Birlinghoven, Fraunhofer IAIS, St. Augustin, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents a field report and summarizes the problems of the appliance of rescue robots during the Collapse of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne. Two robots where on the field, ready to be applied: A shoe-box size tracked mobile robot (VGTV Xtreme) and a caterpillar like system (Active Scope Camera). Due to the special type of collapse and design limitations of the robots, both robotic systems could not be applied. Either they could not reach/fit into voids or could not be controlled from a safe distance. The problems faced have been analyzed and are described in this paper.
Keywords :
mobile robots; Active Scope Camera; Cologne city municipal archive collapse; VGTV Xtreme; caterpillar like system; rescue robots; shoe-box size tracked mobile robot; Cameras; Concrete; Dogs; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems; Field report; Search and Rescue Robots; Teleoperation; Urban Search And Rescue;
Conference_Titel :
Safety Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2010 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Bremen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8898-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8899-5
DOI :
10.1109/SSRR.2010.5981550
