Robotic control vehicle for measuring radiation in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Ohno, Kazunori; Kawatsuma, Shinji; Okada, Takashi; Takeuchi, Eijiro; Higashi, Kenjiro; Tadokoro, Satoshı

doi:10.1109/ssrr.2011.6106792

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“…Unmanned ground vehicles were first used for radiation forensics and localization in Japan at the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident [7], [8], [9]. At the Fukushima Daiichi accident, robots were used to assess the damage both indoors and outdoors, conduct radiological surveys, and help with cleanup operations [7], [9].…”

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A man-packable unmanned surface vehicle for radiation localization and forensics

Wilde

Murphy

Shell

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

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This paper describes the first known manpackable unmanned surface vehicle (USV) system designed for radiation localization, either for nuclear treaty verification or sampling after a nuclear incident. Currently, outdoor radiation sampling is done manually or by ground or aerial unmanned systems. An unmanned surface vehicle can operate in shallow nuclear facility cooling ponds and connected streams, rivers, and bays to sample without entering the facility and while maintaining network connectivity to report readings. The Challenge 1 USV is a Lutra 1.1 autonomous airboat modified to carry an UltraRadiac TM . The debris-free area to survey is determined by teleoperation, then the system autonomously generates and executes a novel spiral path and sampling policy. Challenge 1 was tested for proof-of-concept at Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service's Disaster City R with a cesium-137 source placed near one shore of a pond 72 meters from the deployment point. During this test, 775 radiation readings were taken over an area of 57.61 square meters in 18 minutes. These data were used by an inverse distance weighting interpolation algorithm to produce a visual heatmap.

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A man-packable unmanned surface vehicle for radiation localization and forensics

Wilde

Murphy

Shell

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

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“…The earthquake destroyed the interiors of buildings and causing some areas were highly contaminated by radiation. Several types of robots have been used to explore areas inside the reactor buildings where humans could not enter such as Packbot [8], and Quince [9].…”

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AMBUBOT: Ambulance robot Automated External Defibrillator robotic ambulance

Arif

Samani

2014

16th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology

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Abstract-The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel robot in order to overcome some difficulties in providing an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) device at the nearest location of victim suffering from sudden cardiac arrest in the shortest possible time before the advent of the ambulance. We designed and developed an ambulance robot, called it Ambubot, that brings along an AED to help lay rescuers for saving patients life in a sudden event of cardiac arrest. The first aid to the victim can be carried out once an incident alarm is transmitted to the Ambubot station by sensing via body-attached sensor and/or mobile phone application. Such applications transmit required information to the Ambubot center for further execution. Ambubot center is integrated with three independent servers namely database server, message controller, and GIS server. In addition, message controller server is connected with telecom's short message server for transmitting the message to family members of the patient. The Ambubot robots are located in Ambubot stations when several stations can be covered via single center where human operators are located. Different methods had been proposed for dispatching Ambubot to locate the victim namely tele-control, partially autonomous, and fully autonomous operations. While we have illustrated all those methods in this paper we present the conduction of the tele-control method to control the operation of the robot. In this method, not only Ambubot follows instructions of human operator till the robot reaches the location of victim and delivers the AED but also provides instruction to the people in the location for applying the AED hence the lay rescuers will dry the victim's chest and attach the AED pads by themselves while instructed and monitored by the human experts in the main center in real-time.

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“…Currently there are several robotic prototypes being applied in the nuclear field, such as: wall climber inspection robots (Briones L.;Bustamante P.;and Serna M. A., 1994), the Robug IIS (Luk B. L. et al, 2005), which is a robotic vehicle on legs to overcome obstacles in more complex terrain, Robot Snake (Buckingham R., Graham A., 2005), used to make repairs on nuclear pipes, Korean robots Kaerot (Kim S., et al, 2010), used for inspection and detection in nuclear plants, underwater robots (Nawaz S. et al, 2009) to inspection and detection of nuclear waste, and the robotic vehicle called EQUIPA NIPPON (Ohno K. et al, 2011), designed to measure radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, developed by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tohoku University, and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).…”

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A Prototype of a Robotic Research Facility for Nuclear Applications

Silveira¹,

Pereira²,

Schirru³

2017

Projectus

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This work presents the development of the prototype of a robotic nuclear monitoring facility aimed to support technological and scientific research. It is a terrestrial robot in which nuclear and conventional instrumentation are available and easy-to-use through a user-friendly library for Python programming. The facility may be teleoperated (by mobile devices, notebook or desktop) or operate in autonomous mode, in which a user-defined program run on robot CPU.

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Robotic control vehicle for measuring radiation in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Cited by 44 publications

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A man-packable unmanned surface vehicle for radiation localization and forensics

A man-packable unmanned surface vehicle for radiation localization and forensics

AMBUBOT: Ambulance robot Automated External Defibrillator robotic ambulance

A Prototype of a Robotic Research Facility for Nuclear Applications

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