The disaster mitigation process is dangerous to search-and-rescue (S&R) personnel. Organizations work to develop robotic technologies for disaster response. However, disaster robotics is often characterized by large, bulky, and expensive systems. The goal of this MQP is to analyze the feasibility of a simple, cost-effective heterogeneous robot swarm to map a disaster location for on-site S&R personnel. We designed a ground robot prototype that can be dropped by a drone. We tested collaborative algorithms to perform mapping of cluttered environments by both the ground robot and the drone. Our study also involves tests on durability and disposability of the droppable robot and scalability tests of the mapping algorithms.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Schwartzman, Mathew Charles
• Stuehrmann, Lucy G
• Robbins, Turner J
• Lowe, Carolyn M
• Sarnell, Jarrett Andrew

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042518-191929

Advisor

• Pinciroli, Carlo
• Liang, Jianyu

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering
• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright