Disaster-preventing robot at petroleum production facilities

Author

Kimura, Nobuo

Author_Institution

Electron. Res. Lab., Kobe Steel Ltd., Japan

fYear

1991

fDate

19-22 June 1991

Firstpage

309

Abstract

The conceptual design and test results of the advanced robot for fire-fighting and disaster prevention are described. This robot helps disaster-fighting personnel to grasp disaster status, extinguish fires and prevent the disaster spreading in a high temperature and smoke environment at a petroleum production facility. Developed elemental technologies of the robot include (1) thermal protection technology, (2) gas pressure servo actuator and vibration repressing control for flexible manipulators, (3) locomotion mechanism, (4) medium-range laser visual sensor, (5) short-range ultrasonic visual sensor.<>

Keywords

disasters; fires; mobile robots; petroleum industry; telecontrol; disaster prevention; fire-fighting; flexible manipulators; gas pressure servo actuator; locomotion mechanism; medium-range laser visual sensor; petroleum production facilities; short-range ultrasonic visual sensor; telecontrol; thermal protection technology; vibration repressing control; Fires; Gas detectors; Personnel; Petroleum; Production facilities; Protection; Robot sensing systems; Temperature sensors; Testing; Thermal sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Robotics, 1991. 'Robots in Unstructured Environments', 91 ICAR., Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa, Italy

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0078-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAR.1991.240635

Filename

240635