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Rescue Robot

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Rescue Robot
A self-contained and powered robotic device that ambles over debris from natural (e.g., earthquakes) or manmade disasters (e.g., collapsed buildings) to help rescue workers. They are usually equipped with sensors for CO2 and body heat, and cameras for sending images to a home station
Pros Reduced personnel requirements, reduced fatigue, access to otherwise unreachable areas


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Topics include fault tolerance in universal middleware bridge networks, dynamic reconfiguration of distributed component- based applications, worst-case execution time analysis, adaptive fuzzy control for utilization management, coordination of rescue robots for disaster exploration, and dynamic replication strategies in data service grids.
The Tadokoro Laboratory of Tohoku University applies a new actuation theory to thin restiform bodies to develop active and semi-active rescue robots, and ultimately aims to improve the mobility of robots by allowing them to untangle themselves automatically.
Using a Royal Navy rescue robot, they spent five hours cutting through the cables which had held the AS-28 mini-submarine down as its crew ran out of oxygen on the ocean floor.
 
 
 
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