Development of carbon dioxide sensing system for searching victims in large scale disasters

• DOI: 10.11499/sicep.2004.0.22.1
• Publication Date: 2004-01-01
• Authors: Nguyen Huu Minh; T. Takamori; Shigeru Kobayashi; Shiro Takashima; A. Ikeuchi
• Keywords: Search and rescue; Rescue robot

Japan is a natural disasters prone country. In the Hanshin Awaji great earthquake in 1995, over 6000 people were killed. If appropriate rescue activities had been performed, probability of survival would have fairly high. From such experience, various proposal and development apparatus are being researched now. our project, we develop small searching machine called UMRS (utility vehicle for search) system aiming at discovery sufferers. robot, with many sensors, go into collapsed house perform victims. We aim early detection sufferers by arranging lot groups calamity spot one or number manipulator controls them. UMRS-V has sensor but this paper, tested developed robots using carbon dioxide (TGS4161) to search done experiment TGS4161 sensor, found out its characteristics. Experiment shown that can be applied robot it give us good information proposed method victims debris better strategy.