In Fukushima, a research on the robot Asimo from Honda-based system for monitoring the crashed system is used.
The Japanese power plant operator Tepco can take from a mobile robot under the microscope its damaged nuclear reactors in Fukushima. It is based on Honda’s Asimo robot childlike research. Tepco had asked the Japanese government for assistance to investigate the heavily damaged reactor buildings. People use for this would be too dangerous. Together with Japan’s national research institute AIST Honda Asimo has subsequently developed into a semi-autonomous maintenance robot
Externally Asimo is unrecognizable, however. Instead on two legs he now moves on caterpillar tracks on. This chain drive has contributed the AIST. It can overcome obstacles up to six inches high. In addition, the chassis gives the robot the needed stability to extend its all-new telescopic arm can. Honda has installed it so that the machine can also study hard to reach corner of the devastated reactor.
In running order, the entire unit is about six feet high and 80 centimeters wide. Withdrawn but the arm reaches up to seven meters high. The arm carries camera, laser scanner sensor for chemicals and radioactivity as well as a radiation dosimeter. Rotation, angle and universal joints with fine adjustable stepper motors allow movement in eleven degrees of freedom. Thus, the instruments can search for leaks even in the smallest spaces. The control system for the simultaneous movement of multiple joints has already been tested on the Asimo. operating the robot remotely over a 400-meter long optical fiber cable or via WLAN. It helps that the instruments not only provide pictures and videos, but also 3D-data of their environment. The operator can better assess whether there is enough space for the next movement of the arm of the robot using the three-dimensional models. If the arm but strike it softens the impact of the control software. Good of electronic Beagle weighs a ton, and it moves at a speed of up to two miles per hour forward. Since the end of June, it is in use. What insights he has delivered, to the Japanese silent pending. The newly designed robotic arm but Honda has been further plans. The technology group will also continue to develop humanoid robots for disaster operations. <- AUTHOR MARKER DATA BEGIN -> ( Erich Bonnert ) / <- RSPEAK_STOP -> (bsc)<- RSPEAK_START -> <- AUTHOR DATA MARKER END ->
