Development of Information Gathering Robot with Wheel Mechanism Driven by Friction

Abstract

We have been researching on an information gathering robot. Before a rescue team enters to save the people who encountered the damage in a disaster and the terrorism spot safely, this robot searches for a safe course for the rescue team, dangerous equipment and the victim. We decided a concept to make a small and light weight to have can potable and enter narrow space, and designed robot to comply with it. The total height of robot that makes it for trial purposes is small with 0.12[m]. Moreover, mass is light with 0.6[kg]. We let you run this robot which you produced experimentally on a road surface of various situation including gravel and step and RSF. We have grasped maneuver performance on this robot by comparing with the theoretical value computed beforehand. Devised to improve the traveling performance and a coupling of multiple robots was also confirmed that performance is better to go the step by.