Rescue robots at the Collapse of the municipal archive of Cologne City: A field report

Author

Linder, Thorsten ; Tretyakov, Viatcheslav ; Blumenthal, Sebastian ; Molitor, Peter ; Holz, Dirk ; Murphy, Robin ; Tadokoro, Satoshi ; Surmann, Hartmut

Author_Institution

Schloss Birlinghoven, Fraunhofer IAIS, St. Augustin, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

26-30 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a field report and summarizes the problems of the appliance of rescue robots during the Collapse of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne. Two robots where on the field, ready to be applied: A shoe-box size tracked mobile robot (VGTV Xtreme) and a caterpillar like system (Active Scope Camera). Due to the special type of collapse and design limitations of the robots, both robotic systems could not be applied. Either they could not reach/fit into voids or could not be controlled from a safe distance. The problems faced have been analyzed and are described in this paper.

Keywords

mobile robots; Active Scope Camera; Cologne city municipal archive collapse; VGTV Xtreme; caterpillar like system; rescue robots; shoe-box size tracked mobile robot; Cameras; Concrete; Dogs; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems; Field report; Search and Rescue Robots; Teleoperation; Urban Search And Rescue;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Safety Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2010 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Bremen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8898-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8899-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSRR.2010.5981550

Filename

5981550