[HTML][HTML] A review of ground-based robotic systems for the characterization of nuclear environments

I Tsitsimpelis, CJ Taylor, B Lennox, MJ Joyce - Progress in nuclear energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of ground-based robotic systems for the characterisation of nuclear environments is
reviewed. Almost since the dawn of the nuclear energy industry, man has somewhat …

Rescue robots for the urban earthquake environment

F Li, S Hou, C Bu, B Qu - Disaster medicine and public health …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Robotics have important applications in the field of disaster medical rescue. The deployment
of urban rescue robots at the earthquake site can help shorten response time, improve …

Toward technological contributions to remote operations in the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

K Kawabata - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the decommissioning work being undertaken at the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.(FDNPS) using …

Semi-autonomous centipede-like robot with flexible legs

M Masuda, K Ito - … Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we focus on a centipede. The defining characteristics of a centipede are its
thin, long shape and many legs. The thin shape enables it to move into narrow spaces, and …

THROO: a tracked hybrid rover to overpass obstacles

E Ottaviano, P Rea, G Castelli - Advanced Robotics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, the design, simulation and experimental tests are presented for THROO: a
Tracked Hybrid Rover, which has been developed to Overpass Obstacles. The proposed …

Heterogeneous robots coordination for industrial plant inspection and evaluation at world robot summit 2020

S Kojima, T Takahashi, R Bezerra, T Nara… - Advanced …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes a plant inspection robot team consisting of three types of robots that
won the World Robot Summit 2020 plant disaster prevention challenge. There is a social …

Development of quadruped walking robot with spherical shell-mechanical design for rotational locomotion

T Aoki, S Ito, Y Sei - … on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have proposed and developed a new quadruped walking robot with a spherical shell,
called “QRoSS”. QRoSS is a transformable robot that can store its legs in the spherical shell …

Semiautonomous centipede-like robot for rubble-development of an actual scale robot for rescue operation

K Ito, Y Ishigaki - International Journal of Advanced …, 2015 - inderscienceonline.com
In this study, we developed a multi-legged robot designed to operate on rubble for rescue
operations. Generally, it is very difficult to operate multi-legged robots adaptively in a …

Configuration-space flipper planning on 3d terrain

Y Yuan, Q Xu, S Schwertfeger - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flippers are essential components of tracked robot locomotion systems for unstructured
terrain, especially within a rescue scenario. Achieving full and semi-autonomy for such …

[HTML][HTML] Design of a spider-inspired wheeled compliant leg for search mobile robots

Y Wang, F Pancheri, TC Lueth, Y Sun - Biomimetic Intelligence and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Earthquake and other disasters nowadays still threat people's lives and property due to their
destructiveness and unpredictability. The past decades have seen the booming …