A proposal of flexible mono-tread mobile track - A new mobile mechanism using one track and spine-like structure

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1642-1647

  Kinugasa, Tetsuya ^a   Otani, Yuta ^b   Haji, Takafumi ^a   Yoshida, Koji ^a   Osuka, Koichi ^c   Amano, Hisanori ^d  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Pacific Software Development

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FIRE AND DISASTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSED BUILDINGS; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; FLEXIBLE CHAINS; MOBILE MECHANISM; MOBILITY PERFORMANCE; RESCUE OPERATIONS;

DEBRIS; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 69549122139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650767     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. http://www.rescuesystem.org/ddt/H17-report/, 2006
2. T. Haji, Y. Otani, T. Kinugasa, K. Yoshida, K. Osuka, and H. Amano, "Development of Flexible Mono-Tread Mobile Track", in Proc. of The 25th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, 2007, pp. 3k28.
3. Y. Otani, T. Kinugasa, and K. Yoshida, "Trial Manufacture of Robot for Inspection inside Rubble", in Proc. of the 15th Annual Conference of SICE Chugoku Branch, 2006, pp 28-29.
4. T.Takayama and S.Hirose, Development of "Soryu I & II":-Connected Crawler Vehicle for Inspection of Narrow and Winding Space-, Journal of Robotics and Mechatoronics, vol.15, no.1, 2003, pp 61-69. (Pubitemid 36657289)
5. M. Arai, T. Takayama, and S. Hirose, "Development of "Souryu-III":Connected Crawler Vehicle for Inspection inside Narrow and Winding Spaces", in Proc. of 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004, pp 52-57. (Pubitemid 40275576)
6. M. Arai, Y. Tanaka, S. Hirose, H. Kuwahara, S. Tsukui, Development of "Souryu-IV" and "Souryu-V:"Serially Connected Crawler Vehicles for In-rubble Searching Operations, Journal of Field Robotics, vol.25, issue1, 2008,pp 31-65.
7. K. Osuka and H. Kitajima, "Development of Mobile Inspection Robot for Rescue Activities: MOIRA", in Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and systems, 2003, pp 3373-3377.
8. T. Kamegawa and F. Matsuno, Development of a Remote-controlled Double Headed Snake-like Rescue Robot KOHGA, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, vol.25, no.7, 2007, pp 52-59.
9. H. Miyanaka, et al., "Development of an Unit Type Robot "KOHGA2" with Stuck Avoidance Ability", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007, FrB12.2.
10. http://www.melos.co.jp/jigyou/product/index13.html
11. http://www.furo.org/robot/Hibiscus/
12. K. Ohno, S. Morimura, S. Tadokoro, E. Koyanagi and T. Yoshida, "Semi-autonomous Control System of Rescue Crawler Robot Having Flippers for Getting Over Unknown-Steps", in Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007.
13. T. Fukuda, K. Nishibori, H. Matsuura, F. Arai, S. Sakai, and M. Kanasige, A Study on Wall Surface Mobile Robots : 2nd Report, Mechanism of Model with Variable Structural Crawler and Running Experimental Results, Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. C, vol.60, no.569, pp 211-217, 1994.
14. H. Schempf: "Less is More: AURORA - an example of minimalist design for tracked locomotion", Robotics Research, R.A. Jarvis and A. Zemlinsky (EDs.), Springer Verlag Berlin, pp.453-465, 2003