Development of inspection robot for under floor of house

—We are developing robots for inspection of the under floor of houses. The developed robot system is reported in this paper. The mobile robot platform is based on a crawer type robot developed for rescue purposes. As sensors, a pan-tilt-zoom camera, top-view camera and SOKUIKI sensor are used. We constructed a test field and verified the performance of the robot.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Akihisa Ohya, Shin'ichi Yuta, Tomoaki Yoshida, Eiji Koyanagi, Toyoaki Imai, Sadaaki Kitamura, Ai Takeuchi, Tatsuhiro Minamikawa
• Keywords: Developed Robot, ICRA 2009, Mobile Robot Platform, Robot, Robotics