• 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