Development of a decontamination robot for decommissioning nuclear reactor and its social implementation through a contest

Abstract

Technology contests are based on the competition rules of a certain field. Participating in this is a kind of social implementation research. Authors developed a remote-controlled mobile robot to decontaminate the inside of a nuclear reactor building, and participated in the Decommissioning Robot Contest. In this paper, we report on robot research and development through technology-based contests from the perspective of social implementation-oriented research.