ImPACTタフ・ロボティクス・チャレンジ

抄録

ImPACT Tough Robotics Challenge is a research project of Japan Cabinet Office which aims at creating disruptive disaster robotics that has enough robustness under extreme environment of disaster situations. Five types of robot platforms, i.e. aerial vehicles, cyber rescue canine, construction robots, serpentine robots and legged robots, are being developed as well as various component technologies of sensing, actuation, robot intelligence and human interface. Research fruits are evaluated at test fields twice a year at the ImPACT-TRC Field Evaluation Meetings. It helps researchers, makers and users communicate each other to promote technical innovation as well as social innovation by implementation of robotics systems, and industrial innovation by creation of new business and services. At the November Meeting in 2016, a construction robot with high control precision, teleoperation with feedback of force and touch, visual support from arbitrary point of views, and a far-infrared camera for handling hidden objects by smoke, was demonstrated. Thin serpentine robots showed high mobility in rubble piles with integration of feedback of image, sound and touch. Cyber canine showed that a cyber suit could monitor dog's motion and find things left behind.