Development of a Small Rescue Dummy for Robot Contests that can Detect Pressing Force onto Whole Body

Abstract

Rescue dummies are developed to analyze the influence on human body during rescue activity. In a rescue robot contest, small telemetric rescue dummies are also used for evaluating rescue activities. This contest has been held yearly for the education of rescue techniques and disaster prevention. The theme of the contest is rescue activity by using teleoperated robots at the miniature of a city that supposed to be damaged after large-scale disaster. The authors developed a new dummy system for the 7th rescue robot contest. The key features are: various heights like those of adults and children, the ability to measure loads on the neck and the whole body, and the availability that enables more number of dummies work on the contest field. This report shows the outline, the development process and the damage sensing criteria of the new dummy.