An approach towards rescue robotics in bore well environment

Abstract

A technique for rescue task in bore well environment has been proposed. India is facing a distressed cruel situation where in the previous years a number of child deaths have been reported falling in the bore well. As the diameter of the bore well is quiet narrow for any adult person and the lights goes dark inside it, the rescue task in those situations is a challenging task.Here we are proposing a robotic system which will attach a harness to the child using pneumatic arms for picking up. A teleconferencing system will also be attached to the robot for communicating with the child.commercial harness are available today we choose to use the chest harness to reduce the complexity of the task. A chest harness is capable of lifting a 15 yr old boy easily. The chest harness lifting a boy is shown in Fig.7[12][13].The whole scenario will be feeded live through the communication module which will publish the images from the cameras of the robot. The family members of the victim can also see the condition where their family member is been stuck. Some of them can also collaboratively help the rescue process by soothing the victim with their affectionate talks.The data flow diagram of the communication system has been presented in the Fig.6. The victim can also communicate with their family members through the teleconferencing system.The person operating the robotic arms can also the view the images from the live cameras at the top, as well as the cameras situated at the tip of the arms. The arm-tip cameras will provide the view of the route of the arms for attaching the straps of the harness, also bringing the food-bag or oxygen mask to the victim. Fig.S Illustrated image of the proposed rescue task III . CONCLUSIONA robotic framework for rescue robotics in bore-well environment has been proposed here. Deeply observing those incidents and looking at the current circumstances we feel that we need to develop such framework for saving those innocent lives. In addition there is a whole new research area waiting ahead us which deals with lots of challenges relating to mapping in unknown environment, real-time teleoperation in low lighting conditions, arm manipulation system. Rather than the technical development we would be highly satisfied if it can fulfill the most important aspect of the project, which is to save a life. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThe authors would like to present their sincere grievance to the families who lost their dear ones in those situations. We present our standing ovation to those military and non-military persons who tried their best to save lives. We give special thanks to Mrs.Debashree Makhal who encouraged us and showed us the path for this humanitarian effort. We thank the news media namely Zee News, TheHindu, Times of India, NDTV and the others .Our grievance to those children who lost their lives in that incidents.

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