Deliverable 1 | Selected Opportunity (Theme)

MECHATRONIC EMERGENCY
RESPONSE!

Designing a safe, efficient, and cost-effective “device”

that optimizes emergency response procedures.
Deliverable 2 | Condensed Weighted Matrix
Deliverable 3 | Short Problem Description | Rubble Robot

● Building a robot that can maneuver through terrain with high amounts of
debris, small passageways, and/or undergoing seismic activity.
● Natural disasters occur when we least expect them, earthquakes are no
exception.
● When buildings collapse, innocent people get trapped underneath, or when a
mine crumbles workers find themselves confined in underground chambers.
● Why work on this device? Because being trapped under/behind debris
creates a seemingly hopeless situation. We want to help minimize time delays
of search and sponsor rescue efforts, as well as establish communication
channels between victims and first responders.
● This product is for critical search & rescue purposes
Deliverable 3 | Existing Devices Include...

Howie Choset’s remote-controlled bot sports

more than a dozen joints, allowing it to crawl
and climb through debris that first
responders and animal assistants can't
navigate.

A “head”-mounted camera, LED lights and

distance-measuring laser technology allow
rescue personnel to shepherd the snake
through rubble while it transmits video back
to a remote crew.

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute

Deliverable 4 | Strategy of Rubble Bot
● Rubble Bot will drive in rubble or rugged terrain using treads and feedback
to the user via camera images and alarm with lights and sound when it
detects someone.
● Rubble Bot will be placed by the user and will randomly drive into the
rubble, changing it’s direction if it runs into obstacles.
● If the user sees an image from the Bot, he or she can put it in alarm mode
to help rescuers locate where the Bot is, or if implemented (time permitting)
the Bot can use IR to detect heat signatures and automatically signal to the
emergency response
Deliverable 5 | Component Sketch
● Tank link treads that allow it to navigate
rough terrain
● Omnidirectional wheels to account for the
“nonlinearity” of various terrain
● Camera and alert sensors. We envision
two lights that can be remote activated if
the area has no natural/artificial light
● We want the robot to be able to alert
when it reaches a person as well as have
it navigate over debris
● We want it to feedback camera
images/video footage to the rescue crew
operating it
 Deliverable 5 | Exploded Contour Sketch

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