"DESIGN FOR TRAFFICABILITY“ OF KINEMATICALLY REDUNDANT LOCOMOTION SYSTEMS
DS 60: Proceedings of DESIGN 2010, the 11th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2010
Editor: Marjanovic D., Storga M., Pavkovic N., Bojcetic N.
Author: Labenda, P.; Sadek, T.
Section: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Page(s): 1807-1816
Abstract
Building collapses are frequently accompanied by the entrapment of humans buried alive. The victims have to be localized and rescued. Here, mobile robots can act as mobile sensory units navigating through a field of debris transmitting important data to the rescue staff. The robots’ abilities of locomotion and their mobility and trafficability, respectively, are of major importance. Here, kinematically redundant locomotion systems possess high potentials. The paper deals with the conceptualization of such robots for urban search-and-rescue under the demand of an effective trafficability.
Keywords: trafficability, locomotion systems, kinematic redundancy, environmental considerations, mobile robots, analysis and evaluation