Drilling environment for robot operations and discussions on its usages

The robot tasks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are different from those after earthquakes and in environments where it is more difficult for humans to operate robots previously assumed before. The tasks have been changed over the course of time. We think that cases where rescue robots are used are fewer than those where heavy equipment is used: however, the skills required to operate the robots include more components than the operation of the heavy equipment. We proposed a simulation platform and showed that the performance of operators was increased by performing drills ranging from mastering necessary robot operations to operations in destroyed environments. In this paper, we present the results of drilling experiments using the platform and experiments using two different robots: P2AT and Kenaf. The results show that the platform can be used not only for drilling robot operations but also for remodeling robots at sites.