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 Boe-Bot® CMUcam Rescue Robot
This Project was submitted to Parallax by Dan Stormont
I have been using a pair of Boe-Bot® robots to develop robots for urban search-and-rescue (USAR). A common problem in disasters, whether natural or man-made, is the need to quickly locate and rescue victims in a potentially dangerous environment with limited personnel. If a swarm of small robots can be developed to assist rescuers in locating potential victims and hazardous areas, this could be of great assistance to first responders. The reason for using multiple, small robots is to get good area coverage in a minimum period of time at low cost while not posing a danger to rescuers or victims as a large robot could. One of the key problems to be solved in developing these rescue robots is integrating a number of sensors to provide multiple views of the environment to better identify objects. The location of obstacles, hazards, and potential victims also needs to be communicated to rescuers, so the robots need a way to send data back to a base station to enable a graphical user interface to display a map.
 The Boe-Bot robot pictured above is programmed to work on the problems of integrating sensor inputs from multiple sensors on a single robot and from multiple sensors on multiple robots. It is also being used to develop a GUI for use by rescuers. This project is still pretty new (haven’t had the CMUcams or the second Boe-Bot robot for very long), so the first step has been to get the robots communicating their sensor data to a base station while they are operating in a small-scale indoor environment similar to that used for the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Robot Contest. |
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