1A2-J10 Fluid Powered Ropeway Aiming Rapid Search and Rescue in Half-collapsed Buildings : 3^<rd> Report: Method of Driving the Gondola by Λ-drive(Search and Rescue Robot and mechatronics)

Abstract

This paper proposes a new type of mobile method called Fluid Ropeway aiming to collect information in dangerous buildings as rapidly and safely as possible. The device to realize it is mainly composed of a flexible flat tube and a gondola probe, which is driven by fluid power using buckling phenomenon of the tube. The big advantage is the gondola has possibility of traversing rocky terrain where wheel types and crawler ones are hard to cross over, because it can go forward by the driving force not against the ground but against the tube.