Development of robotic wall system to protect victims

Abstract

Disasters or accidents counter activities and rescue activities are good and suitable subject for robots, because, the activity is accomplishable without the fire fighters getting into dangerous environments by using robots. However, the trade-off between the robots' size and performance are serious problem in actual activities. We resulted to that a small mobile robots group is the one of the effective systems for the activities. Here, we focused on nuclear plant accidents or huge fire in plant, because radiation exposure or radiation heat, for victims who can't evacuate by themselves, is one of serious problems. Then we developed robotic wall system that is a system to build up a shielding wall between victims and the radiation source or the fire. Therefore we developed the group system consists of small mobile robots that build up wall. The development three technological elements in this research work, first we developed the effective moving method of multiple mobile robots in the accidental situation. Next, the robots connect each other, and building up wall finally. We confirmed the effectiveness of the robotic wall system that we developed experimentally