Title :
SEAL Pack versatile, portable, and rapidly deployable SEa, air, and land vehicle
Author :
Piccoli, Matthew ; Revzen, Shai ; Yim, Mark
Abstract :
There are thirteen categories in the Robotic USAR ontology covering land, air, and sea vehicles. We present a robot system that is capable of four of those categories including aerial, terrestrial, and marine locomotion in a single package that is man-portable and low cost. Each mode of locomotion has useful capabilities that the others do not. The land vehicle can travel over 5km with a 500g load. The boat can travel 0.5 km over water or loiter for 140 minutes. The flyer can traverse any terrain for short periods of time. The system packs into a small 33 × 20 × 14 cm package weighing 1 kg. We present design issues and experimental verification.
Keywords :
autonomous aerial vehicles; control engineering computing; legged locomotion; ontologies (artificial intelligence); rescue robots; SEAL Pack; aerial locomotion; air vehicle; land vehicle; marine locomotion; robotic USAR ontology; sea vehicle; terrestrial locomotion; Boats; Brushless motors; Payloads; Propellers; Robots; Seals; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Linkoping
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0879-0
DOI :
10.1109/SSRR.2013.6719362