Field experiment report for tunnel disaster by investigation system with multiple robots

Abstract

This paper reports the field experiment of the teleinvestigation robot system for the tunnel disaster. In Japan, a new project “Robot Technology and Robot System for Next-Generation Social Infrastructure” was started in 2014 by MLIT. The features of this project are that providing actual field (bridges, tunnels, dams, rivers, landslides site and volcanic disaster site), and performing a field demonstration and experiment of robots. The proposed multiple robots system was selected as one of technique in the field for tunnel disaster investigation for this project. A field experiment was performed in order to evaluate the core technologies of the proposed robot system at the imitation tunnel facilities of the NILIM in Tsukuba (Japan) on November 5, 2015.