1Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune, India, cyp.instru@coep.ac.in
The percentage of deaths due to disasters like earth quake, flood, building demolishing, mudslide, fire, gas leakage, etc. are increasing because of not carrying out search and rescue operation properly. Use of robots in search and rescue operations are increasing but those robots have some drawbacks. Rover type robots are very good in working in any situation and any type of terrains. Robot designed in two parts control end and robot end increases the performance of the robot in search and rescue operation. Rover designed with rocker bogie mechanism have passive suspension system which reduces hardware complexity. For designing rocker bogie mechanism the step climbing methodology was used and for motion detection computer vision system toolbox in MATLAB was used.
Rover design, search and rescue operation, rocker bogie mechanism, motion detection
