Synergy in USAR Robotics

Author

Sadeghi, Hamid Mirmohammad ; Bastani, Hamed

Author_Institution

Isfahan Univ. of Technol., Isfahan

fYear

2007

fDate

6-7 July 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents an approach for design and implementation of cooperative rescue robots. The objective is to implement robots making search and rescue (SAR) action safe and easy. The approach is based on two robots, the latter fast and agile to take a general view of disaster area, the former well-equipped to explore surrounding details. However the robots are quite different in appearance and capabilities, but they accomplish the SAR task with a close synergy. Abilities of remotely detecting victims, using non-touch sensors, interactive user friendly control interface and following a planned trajectory to guide towards the victims are main facts of the prosperous SAR. Different parts of the synergetic system, robots; sensors, hardware, control interface, mapping and localization are introduced throughout the paper.

Keywords

disasters; service robots; USAR robotics; control interface; cooperative rescue robots; nontouch sensors; search and rescue action; Communication system control; Communications technology; Control systems; Hardware; Humans; Jacobian matrices; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Safety; Sensor systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Emerging Technologies, 2007. ICIET 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Karachi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1247-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1247-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIET.2007.4381336

Filename

4381336