1st International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Research Article

Collaborative movement of rescue robots for reliable and effective networking in disaster area

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651217,
        author={Hisayoshi Sugiyama and Tetsuo Tsujioka and Masashi Murata},
        title={Collaborative movement of rescue robots for reliable and effective networking in disaster area},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2006},
        month={7},
        keywords={Ad hoc networks  Collaboration  Intelligent networks  Maintenance engineering  Mobile robots  Orbital robotics  Relays  Reliability engineering  Robot sensing systems  Wireless networks},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651217}
    }
    
  • Hisayoshi Sugiyama
    Tetsuo Tsujioka
    Masashi Murata
    Year: 2006
    Collaborative movement of rescue robots for reliable and effective networking in disaster area
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651217
Hisayoshi Sugiyama1,*, Tetsuo Tsujioka1, Masashi Murata2
  • 1: Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University
  • 2: Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University
*Contact email: sugi@info.eng.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Abstract

We investigated a collaboration scheme for rescue robots for reliable and effective operation of rescue systems using robots. The investigation focused on the collaborative movement of robots to maintain their wireless network. We propose classifying the robots into search robots and relay robots and using a behavior algorithm for their collaborative movement. According to the algorithm, search robots explore the disaster area and search for victims, whereas relay robots act as relay terminals within the network. Each robot classifies itself autonomously and repeatedly as the system operation progresses. We evaluated the performance of the victim detection system (a rescue system introduced in our previous paper) based on the proposed scheme by computer simulation. Its performance was improved compared with the case where every robot walked randomly in the disaster area and no classification occurred.