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Title: Planning on starting a rescue robot project
Post by: jellis359 on January 27, 2010, 07:31:25 PM

   Seeing the recent images from Haiti has given me the inspiration to build a rescue robot. I'm looking on making a relatively small robot platform that uses extendible tracks and linear actuators to help it traverse obstacles and fit into cavities in the rubble where a person could not get to. i plan on this being a relatively long project since i will be building most of the components myself, including the linear actuators. Maybe i'll put a tutorial up on how to make the linear actuators. Will put up more information and sketches soon!

Title: Re: Planning on starting a rescue robot project
Post by: madsci1016 on January 27, 2010, 09:38:56 PM

Someone just beat you to it:

http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=10043.0 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=10043.0)

And you should do some googling on Disaster City, Texas

http://www.teex.com/teex.cfm?pageid=USARprog&area=USAR&templateid=1117 (http://www.teex.com/teex.cfm?pageid=USARprog&area=USAR&templateid=1117)

Its a unique testing field with staged disasters for robots and people to train on. It's pretty cool, looks like a theme park almost.

Title: Re: Planning on starting a rescue robot project
Post by: Joker94 on January 28, 2010, 03:42:19 AM

there is always inprovments to make on rescue bot platforms.

and i am sure you can come up with another actuuator design.

good luck

Joker94

Title: Re: Planning on starting a rescue robot project
Post by: jellis359 on January 29, 2010, 10:50:56 AM

oh i plan on making a fast actuator for smooth quick movement

Title: Re: Planning on starting a rescue robot project
Post by: Comrade117 on January 29, 2010, 12:33:32 PM

How would that bot work? Video under rumbles?