Development of a Multiple Mobile Robotic System for Team Work

In order to collect information of terror site or fire area where persons are open to danger, a robot system is demanding for use in such hazardous environment. In this study, we introduce small and multiple robot system for team work in hazardous environment. This system is composed of one the mother ship and four small-sized search robots. The mother ship and three small-sized robots are equipped with CMOS-camera to collect visual information and one other small-sized robot has infrared camera for inspecting dark area. Not only mother ship but also small-sized robots are controlled by Bluetooth. The information being collected is provided to the user through wireless communication. The so called SECUBOT was developed and its performance was shown through experiment at real environment with slope and obstacles.