Development of Snake-Like Rescue Robot Designed for Ease of Use-Successfully Combine Mobility with Operability-

Abstract

Rescue operation is one of the most effective applications of snake-like robots, because it is very dangerous for human beings to locate survivors in collapsed buildings and, in addition, snake-like robots can move into narrow spaces to find survivors. However, previous rescue systems that use robots have a significant problem that is shortage of professional operators. To solve the problem, we have focused on volunteer non-professional staffs as operators of the rescue robots, and have developed a three dimensional snake-like robot that can be controlled easily. In this paper, we extend our previous works, and propose new snake-like robot which can be controlled easily by using simple steering wheel without losing mobility.