Paper Info
Title
Development of a remote control system for construction machinery for rescue activities with a pneumatic robot
Abstract
Rescue activities at disaster sites often require the remote control of construction machinery to ensure the safety of the workers. A pneumatic 6-d.o.f. robot arm was developed to achieve the remote control of construction machinery. A lightweight fiber-knitted-type pneumatic artificial rubber muscle was selected as the actuator for the arm after considering portability and installation issues. A control system was then designed to remotely operate the pneumatic robot arms. The system consists of the slave and master side. The slave side is composed of two robot arms, a control box, a power generator and an air compressor. The master side consists of two joysticks and a laptop PC. A wireless LAN was employed to achieve the remote control. Construction machinery was retrofitted with the pneumatic robot and field tests were performed at a real construction site. The operation times using remote control and direct operation were compared. The results confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1163/156855306775525811
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
rescue,pneumatic,robot arm,remote control,rubber muscle
Robotic arm,Remote control,Air compressor,Control engineering,Software portability,Control system,Engineering,Robot,Joystick,Actuator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
2
0169-1864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.64
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takahiro Sasaki1103.35
Kenji Kawashima27210.24