Disaster swarm robot development: On going project

Abstract

This paper dealt with the development of disaster robot, especially for earthquake and tsunami. The necessary of robot arise after several tragedy including natural and manmade disaster. Several consideration on developing disaster robot also discussed, including on mobility and locomotion aspects. Some robots that have been created and robots that are in the process of completion and future plans are also discussed. Swarm robot is considered as an ideal platform since in the disaster field usually cluttered and unstructured environment in which usually in very narrow area. Therefore, by the swarm robot platform, the size of each robot usually small enough to pass the narrow area, and if necessary the robot could working together to achieve certain taks such as some limited rescue operation.