On the design and development of a rough terrain robot for rescue missions
Issued Date
2009-02-21
Resource Type
Language
eng
Rights
Mahidol University
Rights Holder(s)
Faculty of Engineering. Mahidol University
Suggested Citation
J. Suthakorn, S.S.H. Shah, S. Jantarajit, W. Onprasert, W. Saensupo, S. Saeung, S. Nakdhamabhorn, V. Sa-Ing, S. Reaungamornrat (2009). On the design and development of a rough terrain robot for rescue missions. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/3379
Title
On the design and development of a rough terrain robot for rescue missions
Abstract
Rescue Robots play an important role
during rescue missions in disasters such as 9/11, which caused more than 2,000 deaths and thousands of injuries. However, tele-operating rescue robots are unable to
perform their tasks constantly due to the limitation of current wireless communication technology. Therefore,rescue robots with the capability of performing their tasks
autonomously during temporarily lost connections to the control base would be ideal. This paper introduces our
development of a semi-autonomous rough terrain robot for rescue missions. The robot’s hardware components,
system architecture, and software architecture are described in order to provide a general overview of our
robot. An alternative and comprehensive map-generating algorithm is presented and discussed. Finally,experimental setup and results from a testing arena are reported.
Description
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, (2008), page 1830-1835