Abstract
Standard Disaster Robotics Challenge of World Robot Summit (WRS) aims to test the ability of robots that can be used as disaster response robots. Robot Engineering Lab of the University of Aizu is developing a robotic system to address challenges in the WRS. The competition has five stages, and the teleoperation robotic system had to be developed to satisfy the requirements of each challenge. REL uses a disaster-response robot called Giraffe, which has the capability of traveling in hard terrain. Open Robot Technology Middleware uses to integrate all of the subsystems inside the robot. Each subsystem has different tasks that process video data, RGB depth data, Point Cloud Data, sensor data and, feedback data. The Robotic system includes 6 cameras and NDI Software Developer Kit used to transmit and view video streams remotely. The video stream from each camera can be viewed separately, and it gives wider control over the robot for the operator. The teleoperation robotic system was tested during a robot demonstration held in Fukushima Robot Test Field, and results were analyzed according to the WRS 2018 competition guidelines. The results were at an acceptable level.
Highlights
In this paper, we are going to describe how the Robot Engineering Lab of the University of Aizu (REL) developed a Teleoperation (Tele-Op) System for a disaster-response robot to face the Standard Disaster Robotics Challenge of World Robot Summit (WRS)
The students in REL were divided into two main teams, a team that was dealing with actual machines (STM) and a team that was dealing with simulation environment (SIM)
We have developed a software that allows the operator to select the information of a camera to be acquired from multiple cameras by using this Software Development Kit (SDK) to realize a system that allows the operator to understand the situation around the robot (Figure 6)
Summary
We are going to describe how the Robot Engineering Lab of the University of Aizu (REL) developed a Teleoperation (Tele-Op) System for a disaster-response robot to face the Standard Disaster Robotics Challenge of World Robot Summit (WRS). The aims of the WRS are accelerating the social implementation, and research and development of robots in real life, social and industrial fields [1]. The categories of WRS were created based on the incidents that happened after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. After the earthquake of 2011, a largescale nuclear accident occurred in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. At the nuclear power plant, most of the restoration work was being carried out manually at that time. Developing robotics systems that can be used for such systems has become a timely manner
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