A vertically moving robot able to grip handrails for fire-fighting

Amano, Hisanori

doi:10.1163/156855302320535962

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“…Most rely on special tools and/or engineered environments. They are often equipped with endeffectors, such as pegs, hooks and special grippers, that match engineered features of the environment, like holes, handrails, wire fences, bars and poles [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Another family of climbing robots, adhesive robots, stick to flat or smoothly curved surfaces using devices like suction cups or magnets [15][16][17][18].…”

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Capuchin: A Free-Climbing Robot

Zhang

Latombe

2013

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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This paper describes an integrated quasi‐ autonomous four‐limbed robot, named Capuchin, which is equipped with appropriate sensing, planning and control capabilities to “free‐climb” vertical terrain. Unlike aid climbing that takes advantage of special tools and/or engineered terrain features, free climbing only relies on friction at the contacts between the climber and the rigid terrain. While moving, Capuchin adjusts its body posture (hence, the position of its centre of mass) and exerts appropriate forces at the contacts in order to remain in equilibrium. Vision is used to achieve precise contacts and force sensing to control contact forces. The robot’s planner is based on a pre‐existing two‐stage “stance‐ before‐motion” approach. Its controller applies a novel “lazy” force control strategy that performs force adjustments only when these are needed. Experiments demonstrate that Capuchin can reliably climb vertical terrain with irregular features

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Capuchin: A Free-Climbing Robot

Zhang

Latombe

2013

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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“…The automatic fire sprinklers system is the indoor way to extinguish fire or hold it in check until firefighters arrive [7]. Fire trucks still play a dominant role in fighting high-rise building fires from outside of the building in China [8][9][10], even though the firefighting robot for high-rise building has been proposed [11][12][13][14]. Although the new fire prevention and extinguishing technologies are constantly put forward, high-rise building fires are still frequent and threaten people's lives.…”

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A Study of Fire Drone Extinguishing System in High-Rise Buildings

Wang

Yuan

Chen

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Firefighting in high-rise buildings remains a difficult problem in the world because fire extinguishing equipment and tactics have many deficiencies in dealing with such building fires, especially for buildings higher than 50 m. In the present study, the LY100 fire extinguishing system is taken as an example to introduce the application of the fire drone in the fire control of high-rise buildings. The LY100 fire extinguishing system mainly contains the twin-rotor drone, high-pressure liquid fire extinguishing equipment, pressure fire extinguishing equipment, associated vehicle and extinguishing agent. The LY100 system can be deployed quickly and operated flexibly. Based on such advantages, the indoor fire, exterior thermal insulation layer fire and top platform fire of high-rise building can be extinguished in a timely manner with the LY100 system. In addition, four kinds of firefighting tactics are described in this paper, including one drone operation, double drone cooperative operation, three or more drone cooperative operations, and cooperating with the lifting fire truck. Finally, the experiments are presented to verify the spraying distance of the fire drone system.

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Using Rescue Robots to Increase Construction Site Safety

Chonnaparamutt¹,

Birk²

2006

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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Robotics technology is continuously gaining in importance in many applications. Especially mobile robots are already widely used in many fields including construction sites. Accidents in the construction industry have been identified as one of the most hazardous incidents compared to other work environments. We therefore propose to consider robotics technology to improve this situation. This paper introduces the idea of applying rescue robots as an accident prevention and first aid provision system at construction sites. In doing so, the mobility of the robot is a key issue. The paper presents a special robot, the rugbot, and a novel mechatronic component, a so-called flipper, which can be used to adapt the footprint of the robot. This allows the robot to negotiate a difficult environment as it can be found at construction sites.

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A vertically moving robot able to grip handrails for fire-fighting

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Capuchin: A Free-Climbing Robot

Capuchin: A Free-Climbing Robot

A Study of Fire Drone Extinguishing System in High-Rise Buildings

Using Rescue Robots to Increase Construction Site Safety

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