Title :
Disaster-preventing robot at petroleum production facilities
Author_Institution :
Electron. Res. Lab., Kobe Steel Ltd., Japan
Abstract :
The conceptual design and test results of the advanced robot for fire-fighting and disaster prevention are described. This robot helps disaster-fighting personnel to grasp disaster status, extinguish fires and prevent the disaster spreading in a high temperature and smoke environment at a petroleum production facility. Developed elemental technologies of the robot include (1) thermal protection technology, (2) gas pressure servo actuator and vibration repressing control for flexible manipulators, (3) locomotion mechanism, (4) medium-range laser visual sensor, (5) short-range ultrasonic visual sensor.<>
Keywords :
disasters; fires; mobile robots; petroleum industry; telecontrol; disaster prevention; fire-fighting; flexible manipulators; gas pressure servo actuator; locomotion mechanism; medium-range laser visual sensor; petroleum production facilities; short-range ultrasonic visual sensor; telecontrol; thermal protection technology; vibration repressing control; Fires; Gas detectors; Personnel; Petroleum; Production facilities; Protection; Robot sensing systems; Temperature sensors; Testing; Thermal sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Robotics, 1991. 'Robots in Unstructured Environments', 91 ICAR., Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa, Italy
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0078-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICAR.1991.240635
