RAPOSA Robot

RAPOSA Project

Robot semi-Autónomo Para Operações de SAlvamento
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  Introduction  

After the success of the Rescue Project (http://rescue.isr.ist.utl.pt/), the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST: a Portuguese University) aims to further develop their investigation on Search and Rescue (SaR) robots. To achieve this, a brand new project is being developed in a partnership led by an innovative robotics Portuguese company: IdMind – Engenharia de Sistemas, Lda. The project goal is to build a Search and Rescue (SaR) robot, conceived to operate in environments hostile to human presence (or otherwise not reachable). Collapsed buildings are a perfect example on where the robot should operate.
The RAPOSA name is an acronym for “Robot Semi-Autónomo para Operações de Salvamento” which means “Semi Autonomous Robot for Rescue Operations”. It’s a cool name as it means fox, a good concept for our robot: both agile and small sized.
This first prototype will be equipped for search operations only, in such a way that a remote operator can detect survivors and estimate the environment conditions. With this goal it will feature a set of adequate sensors. It will be semi-autonomous, in a sense that it will be optimized to keep all low level controls out of the operator concern, thus allowing him to focus on finding victims, rather than on the quirks of driving the robot.


This project is an R&D consortium, with a partnership of the following members:

The RAPOSA project is an R&D project, it is funded by the POSI program (medida 1.3 - "Investigação em Consórcio") through the FEDER program and the Portuguese Budget, and managed by ADI (The Innovation Agency).

 


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