Mechanical design and system architecture of a tracked vehicle robot for urban search and rescue operations

Raimund Edlinger; Michael Zauner

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27272-1_4

Mechanical design and system architecture of a tracked vehicle robot for urban search and rescue operations

Raimund Edlinger, Michael Zauner

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Abstract

Human rescuers have very short time to find trapped victims in a collapsed structure, otherwise the chance of finding victims still alive is nearly zero. In such a critical situation robots can support rescuers. According to this very demanding tasks the development of the robots is very complex and combines multiple disciplines such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and programming. This mobile platform equipped with a manipulator represents the first stage of an Austrian national founded project. A common background of our above activities is the development of a tracked vehicle with four active flippers to improve the traversability on uneven terrains, the control of the driving mechanism and the system architecture with the experiments in the programming of an embedded real-time processor and a high-performance FPGA from National Instruments to control all sensors and actuators.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2010 - International Conference, Revised Selected Papers
Publisher	Springer
Pages	46-56
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9783642272714
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27272-1_4
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2010 - Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland Duration: 27 May 2010 → 30 May 2010

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	156 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2010
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Rapperswil-Jona
Period	27.05.2010 → 30.05.2010

Keywords

mobile manipulation
Rescue Robot
stair climbing
tracked mobile robot

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Edlinger, R., & Zauner, M. (2011). Mechanical design and system architecture of a tracked vehicle robot for urban search and rescue operations. In Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2010 - International Conference, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 46-56). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 156 CCIS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27272-1_4

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Edlinger, R & Zauner, M 2011, Mechanical design and system architecture of a tracked vehicle robot for urban search and rescue operations. in Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2010 - International Conference, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 156 CCIS, Springer, pp. 46-56, International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2010, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, 27.05.2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27272-1_4

Mechanical design and system architecture of a tracked vehicle robot for urban search and rescue operations. / Edlinger, Raimund ; Zauner, Michael.
Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2010 - International Conference, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, 2011. p. 46-56 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 156 CCIS).

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