Rescue robot cul: carry and power assist robot for unspecified landform

摘要

When a natural disaster happens, it is very important to go to the place for resue people as soon as possible. However, it is very hard to transport materials to rescue because the disasters destroy roads all over the area. Therefore, we can not use automobile. Moreover, the landform of the area must be so complex. In this paper, We propose a kind of walking robot system named CUL: Curry and Power Assist Robot for Unspecified Landform. To develop the system, we also propose a method for crating an environmental map. We call the method as "Mold Tube Method". And we describe a prototype of CUL which has two cameras and two legs. We show a lan of experiment for feasibility study.