On-rubble robot systems for the DDT Project

Fumitoshi Matsuno, Takashi Tsubouchi, Shigeo Hirose, Iwaki Akiyama, Takao Inoh, Michele Guarnieri, Kenji Kawashima, Takahiro Sasaki, Naoji Shiroma, Tetsushi Kamegawa, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro, Noritaka Sato, Yoshikazu Inoue, Takahide Takeuchi, Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, Masashi Sasaki, Ato Kitagawa, Takahiro Tanaka, Yasuhiro MasutaniHaruo Soeda, Koichi Osuka, Masamitsu Kurisu, Tomoharu Doi, Tadahiro Kaneda, Xin Zhi Zheng, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Noriyuki Matsuoka, Teruaki Azuma, Masahiro Hatsuda

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Abstract

Intelligent rescue systems with advanced information and robot technology have been expected to mitigate disaster damage, particularly in Japan after the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. It is important that the robots developed for search and rescue tasks can actually work at a real disaster site. Several robots were used for the search and detection operation in the collapsed World Trade Center building in September 2001. In 2002, the DDT Project (Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Urban Areas, III-4 Development of Advanced Robots and Information Systems for Disaster Response) was launched by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan). It was a 5-year project for 2002-2007. It aimed at developing necessary technologies for mitigating the damage caused by large-scale earthquakes of the scale of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, occurring in densely populated areas in big city regions such as the Tokyo metropolitan area and Keihanshin area. In this paper, we introduce the activities of the mission unit for the information collection by on-rubble mobile platforms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRescue Robotics
Subtitle of host publicationDDT Project on Robots and Systems for Urban Search and Rescue
PublisherSpringer London
Pages105-129
Number of pages25
ISBN (Print)9781848824737
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

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