Design, Implementation and Characterization of a Low-Cost Stair-Climbing and Obstacle Dodging Robot for Emergency Situations

© 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Disaster response robots (DRRs) designed to explore dangerous areas in emergency situations (collapses, urban conflagration, earthquakes, floods) represent a design challenge. Therefore, there is the constant need of innovation in the field of navigation through harsh environment. In this paper, we present a design and implementation of a low cost, low power consumption and high terrain adaptability continuous track articulated robot. The proposed design is capable of climbing obstacles and dodging them by adjusting the inner angle of a middle joint. Also the current research, provides new ideas towards the innovation and ad-hoc use of low-cost robots for emergency scenarios.

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