Caving Rescue Design Questions. Thanks guys.
Posted: Mar 29, 2014 12:48 am
Hi everyone,
My name is Ning. I am industrial design MFA candidate. I am working on my final project which is enhance the operational safety and efficiency in caving rescue mission.
I am wondering, if I can ask some question about caving, is there anybody can help me. Thanks guys so much.
Right now I am in the research part. When I doing the research, I found the caving rescuers spend a lot of time in the part of search and transport victims. So I am thinking to design an automatics robot that can help rescuers to do the search job. It will save more time and generate more survival chance for victims.
What do you think about my project? I have some storyboard want to show your guys.
Storyboard 1
The first storyboard talk about the “Spider robot” used underground. The robot has Laser scanner that can scan the environment and computer to calculate the path. When the robot be sent into cave, it can scan the cave surface to find the minimum dimension of the cave, and figure out whether it can pass through. After a period of time, the robot detects the water, and it will make a decision how to pass through the water. The robot jump to the roof, and reverses position. In order to stand on the roof, the robot’s feet using the “Gecko feet adhesion” technology which can stick on the rock surface. Because the Laser scanner cannot scan through the object, so I am thinking, if there is a big rock dislodge from the roof and block the way, how does robot know if there is a victims behind the rock. Therefore, the spider robot may have other sensor to detect victims, like vibration sensor, heat sensor, or odor detection sensor. What is more, the robot can determines direction if it found the cave diverges into more tunnels.
My name is Ning. I am industrial design MFA candidate. I am working on my final project which is enhance the operational safety and efficiency in caving rescue mission.
I am wondering, if I can ask some question about caving, is there anybody can help me. Thanks guys so much.
Right now I am in the research part. When I doing the research, I found the caving rescuers spend a lot of time in the part of search and transport victims. So I am thinking to design an automatics robot that can help rescuers to do the search job. It will save more time and generate more survival chance for victims.
What do you think about my project? I have some storyboard want to show your guys.
Storyboard 1
The first storyboard talk about the “Spider robot” used underground. The robot has Laser scanner that can scan the environment and computer to calculate the path. When the robot be sent into cave, it can scan the cave surface to find the minimum dimension of the cave, and figure out whether it can pass through. After a period of time, the robot detects the water, and it will make a decision how to pass through the water. The robot jump to the roof, and reverses position. In order to stand on the roof, the robot’s feet using the “Gecko feet adhesion” technology which can stick on the rock surface. Because the Laser scanner cannot scan through the object, so I am thinking, if there is a big rock dislodge from the roof and block the way, how does robot know if there is a victims behind the rock. Therefore, the spider robot may have other sensor to detect victims, like vibration sensor, heat sensor, or odor detection sensor. What is more, the robot can determines direction if it found the cave diverges into more tunnels.