DocumentCode
1394875
Title
A safer way to search disaster sites
Author
Weston, Jennifer
Volume
7
Issue
3
fYear
2000
fDate
9/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
56
Lastpage
57
Abstract
North Carolina State University engineers design a pipe-crawling robot to help save lives. Two versions of the modular observation crawler and sensing instrument: MOCASIn I and MOCASIn II, which are robots that can crawl through six-inch piping, have been developed
Keywords
disasters; mobile robots; robot vision; CCD image sensor; MOCASIn; North Carolina State University; disaster sites; modular observation crawler; pipe-crawling robot; robot vision; Buildings; Contracts; Design engineering; Electrical engineering computing; Explosives; Gases; Intelligent robots; Navigation; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1070-9932
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/100.876911
Filename
876911
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