Emergency response to the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants using mobile rescue robots

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-63

  Nagatani, Keiji ^a   Kiribayashi, Seiga ^a   Okada, Yoshito ^a   Otake, Kazuki ^a   Yoshida, Kazuya ^a   Tadokoro, Satoshi ^a   Nishimura, Takeshi ^b   Yoshida, Tomoaki ^b   Koyanagi, Eiji ^b   Fukushima, Mineo ^c   Kawatsuma, Shinji ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY; COMMERCIAL ELECTRONICS; COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EXPLORATION MISSIONS; GAMMA-RAY IRRADIATION; HARDWARE RELIABILITY; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; OUT-OF-CONTROL; RADIATION TOLERANCES; REACTOR BUILDING; RESCUE ROBOT; ROBOT OPERATORS; ROBOT SYSTEM; SAFETY MARGIN; SURVEILLANCE MISSIONS; TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANIES; WIRED COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES; HYDROGEN; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84870878813     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21439     Document Type: Article

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