An Approach to Design a Haptic and Autonomous Multi-mission Incident Response Robot

Abstract

Explosive Ordnance Disposal/Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (EOD/IEDD), Urban Save and Rescue (USAR), Firefighting, Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) Agents neutralization robots serve every day. There is a necessary to focus research efforts on closing the technological gap between the current incidence response robots and the latest technologies implemented in major service robot fields such as game, domestic, medical, etc. and industrial robot applications. A target should be the improvement of the multi-mission capabilities and the effectiveness of the incident response robots. The main goal of the paper is to present a concept of haptic and autonomous multi-mission incident response robot for controlled industrial, civil and bomb disposal emergency situations. The article focuses on closing the reliability gap current incident response robots suffer in comparison with, e.g. the industrial robots.