Development of mobile robots for search and rescue operation systems

Abstract

This paper proposes a sufferers searching system using the group of robots to find sufferers at debris as quickly as possible in urban disaster. Five kind of new robots (Series UMRS-V) have developed as the searching robots and their hardware and software systems included the feature and mechanism, sensor system, data processing and control system have made clear. The human interface and simulator system have also developed to make the communication between robots and operator easy and to study the searching algorithm etc. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.