Junior High School Rescue Robot Challenge using Shock Sensitive Tiny Dummy Robot

Authors
Kazuo Kawada*, Keisuke Iuchi, Keita Murai, Hiroyuki Y. Suzuki
Graduate School of Humanities Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-1-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8524, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Kazuo Kawada
Received 6 December 2020, Accepted 3 May 2021, Available Online 23 July 2021.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.210713.004
Keywords
Rescue dummy; robot evaluation; technology education; Junior High School; ICT
Abstract
The Junior High School Rescue Robot Challenge is an annual activity held by Hiroshima University with the sponsorship of a construction machinery company. Its 2020 theme was to convey injured people “tenderly” from the top of a half-demolished building to ground. We developed shock sensitive tiny dummy robot, controlled by M5Stack microcomputer since it rigged with accelerometer. The remote (wired) controlled robots developed by junior high school students conveyed the dummy and evaluated their performances including “tenderness” of the robots using the dummy.
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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