Title :
Development of Helios VII: an arm-equipped tracked vehicle for search and rescue operations
Author :
Guarnieri, Massimo ; Debenest, R. ; Inoh, T. ; Fukushima, E. ; Hirose, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. & Aerosp. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan
fDate :
28 Sept.-2 Oct. 2004
Abstract :
In this research an arm-equipped vehicle for search and rescue operations is presented. The important features for tracked vehicles are introduced through an overview of the solutions so far developed. The concept and the motion capabilities of the new vehicle Helios VII are explained. Afterwards the first assembled prototype is validated by means of mechanical computer simulations and basic experiments on the real vehicle.
Keywords :
manipulators; mobile robots; motion control; Helios VII; arm-equipped tracked vehicle; assembled prototype; mechanical computer simulations; search and rescue operations; Assembly; Computer simulation; Crawlers; Mobile robots; Parallel robots; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Stability; Vehicles; Virtual prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8463-6
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2004.1389326
