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Thanks to the two—year long
efforts, the Submarine Robot Research Center,
Shenyang Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy
of Sciences has developed China's first water surface robot
rescuer. Designed with a height less than 1 meter and a
weight around 30 kg, the robot rescuer is able to make a
fast advance movement at 2 — 3 m a second. The new
robot is able to drag the life buoy or rope to the drowning
victims or wrecking boats, though designed for the unmanned
operation.
The robot rescuer looks like two
small rockets tied - together with the remote signal
receiving unit, compass and chips housed in its upper part
and nickel—hydrogen batteries in the lower part. The
robot rescuer has been tested for its performance in
different experimental environments such as labs, lakes and
China’s territory sea waters. The operator may take
control of the robot rescuer from the distance as far as 1
km. The robot rescuer transmits through the wireless
telecommunication system its data on movement, navigation
angles and energy reserve to the operator. The experiments
have shown that the robot rescuer is not only able to send
rescuing tools to the victims in a fast manner, but also
able to drag a life boat carrying 4 persons at a cruise
speed of 4. 8 km per hour.
It is reported that
the robot rescuer is of an excellent controllability in the
context of quick starting, adjustable cruising speeds,
steady movement and flexible direction turning mechanism. In
addition, the designers have improved the robot's stability
and wave resistance to make it able to work under severe
conditions of strong waves and currents.
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