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Advanced Robotics

Volume 16, No. 6, pp. 463--572, 2002

President's message: celebrating our 20th anniversary
463

Review paper

Robotics Research in Japan: its history for three decades Memorial edition of DVD for the 20th Anniversary of the Robotics Society of Japan
Tsutomu Hasegawa 465

Cutting Edge of Robotics in Japan 2002 (Disaster Response Robotics)

Preface
475

Technical notes

Development of a robot system for nuclear emergency preparedness
Takahisa Mano and Shoichi Hamada 477

Development of a robotic system for nuclear facility emergency preparedness --- observing and work-assisting robot system
Yasuhiro Yuguchi and Yoshifumi Satoh 481

`SWAN': a robot for nuclear disaster prevention support
Yuuji Hosoda, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Makoto Hattori, Hiroshi Sakairi, Tarou Iwamoto, Masataka Oowada, Akihiro Kanno and Yuuji Saitou 485

Development of a work robot with a manipulator and a transport robot for nuclear facility emergency preparedness
Yoshifumi Isozaki and Kimikazu Nakai 489

Development of a radiation-proof robot
Kiyoshi Oka and Kiyoshi Shibanuma 493

Development of remote surveillance squads for information collection on nuclear accidents
Tadayoshi Kobayashi, Kazutoshi Miyajima and Satoshi Yanagihara 497

Environmental monitoring robots for nuclear emergencies
Masato Otaki 501

Disaster restoration work for the eruption of Mt Usuzan using an unmanned construction system
Yuji Hiramatsu, Takashi Aono and Masami Nishio 505

Development of mobile robots for rescue operations
Shigeo Hirose and E.F. Fukushima 509

Utilization of fluid power for rescue operations and robots
Ato Kitagawa and Hideyuki Tsukagoshi 513

A mobile robot for collecting disaster information and a snake robot for searching
Fumitoshi Matsuno 517

Analysis of wake-up motion for an articulated mobile robot
Masayuki Nunobiki, Koichi Okuda and Motoyoshi Hasegawa 521

A human body search system by a man-machine controlled group of robots in a rescue operation
Shigeru Kobayashi and Toshi Takamori 525

Application of a `limb mechanism' robot to rescue tasks
Yasushi Mae, Tatsuo Arai, Kenji Inoue and Kunio Miyawaki 529

Rescue robot CUL: walking system based on a `Robotic Follower'
Kenichi Tokuda, Koichi Osuka, Yoshihiro Mori and Shinsuke Yano 533

A portable parallel motion platform for urban search and surveillance in disasters
Satoshi Tadokoro and Shigeru Kobayashi 537

Development of a rescue robot with a multi-sensor hand system
Ryosuke Masuda 541

Two attempts at linking robots with disaster information: InfoBalloon and gareki engineering
Masahiko Onosato and Taro Watasue 545

An intelligent data carrier system as an information assistant in rescue
Daisuke Kurabayashi, Hajime Asama, K.-I. Noda and Hiroshi Hashimoto 549

Fire robots developed by the Tokyo Fire Department
Kazuyoshi Miyazawa 553

A vertically moving robot able to grip handrails for fire-fighting
Hisanori Amano 557

Development of underwater search and rescue remotely operated vehicles
Nozomu Matsumoto 561

Rescue Robot Contest --- to expand the range of rescue research
Koichi Osuka and Executive Comittee of Rescue Robot Contest 565

RoboCupRescue international research project
Satoshi Tadokoro and RoboCupRescue TC 569