3 accepted papers
For building a disaster response robot, WAREC-l's fully-automated system for manipulating a valve, this paper proposes a method for (1) detecting a valve which is far away from the robot, (2) estimating the position and orientation for grasping the valve by the robot at a closer position. Our method…
In this paper, we propose an end-effector for realizing various locomotion modes and simple work of a legged robot. The locomotion modes include climbing a vertical ladder, crawling, and walking. The simple work includes grasping and switching motions required at a disaster site. The developed end-e…
This paper describes a novel four-limbed robot having high mobility capability in extreme environments. At disaster sites, there are various types of environments where a robot must move such as rough terrain with possibility of collapse, narrow places, stairs, vertical ladders and so forth. In this…