Paper Info
Title
A New Disaster Information Sensing Mode: Using Multi-Robot System with Air Dispersal Mode.
Abstract
This paper presents a novel sensing mode for using mobile robots to collect disaster ground information when the ground traffic from the rescue center to disaster site is disrupted. Traditional sensing modes which use aerial robots or ground robots independently either have limited ability to access disaster site or are only able to provide a bird's eye view of the disaster site. To illustrate the proposed sensing mode, the authors have developed a Multi-robot System with Air Dispersal Mode (MSADM) by combining the unimpeded path of aerial robots with the detailed view of ground robots. In the MSADM, an airplane carries some minimal reconnaissance ground robots to overcome the paralyzed traffic problem and deploys them on the ground to collect detailed scene information using parachutes and separation device modules. In addition, the airplane cruises in the sky and relays the control and reported information between the ground robots and the human operator. This means that the proposed sensing mode is able to provide more reliable communication performance when there are obstacles between the human operators and the ground robots. Additionally, the proposed sensing mode can easily make use of different kinds of ground robots, as long as they have a compatible interface with the separation device. Finally, an experimental demonstration of the MSADM is presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed sensing mode.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18103589
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile robot,remote sensing,disaster response,air deployment,natural hazards
Robotic systems,Electronic engineering,Control engineering,Engineering,Biological dispersal
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
10.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Liu152.23
Junyao Gao21410.88
Jingchao Zhao332.18
Xuanyang Shi400.68