Improvement of the Robotic System for Disaster and Hazardous Threat Management

Following paper shows an improvement of the robotic system (Masłowski, 2004 and 2006) for disaster and hazardous threat management. The system uses two types of robots for investigating the potential risks in unknown environment – teleoperated and fully autonomous mobile platform. The teleoperated robot equipped with video cameras and 5DOF arm is used for hazardous materials detection and neutralization. The improvement is based on the autonomous mobile robot development based on hybrid composition of 3D laser scanners providing 3D feedback to base station. The idea of real time 3D map building is shown. The new idea of the usage given map to the supervision module of the robotics system is presented.