Abstract
We aim at the development of rescue robots and tools which are driven by hydraulic actuators. They have small and simple mechanism and achieve heavy-duty rescue operations. This report shows the results of the field tests carried out to verify the possibility of three developed rescue robots which we are named the Jack Robot, the Compact Jack Robot and the Cutter Robot, respectively. We classified the disaster situations to three categories ; the collapsed house cases, the rubble collapsed cases and the traffic accident cases. We applied the three robots to test fields which simulated these three disaster cases. As the experimental results, we founded the great potential of the high-powered small rescue robots in disaster areas.
