The Development of Small-sized Launchable Robot for Reconnaissance

Lee, Seung-Ho; Jung, Won-Suk; Lee, Min-Gu; Park, Ji-Hyuk; Park, Hyun-Soo; Yoo, Kyu-Jae; Kim, Soo-Hyun

doi:2012.15.5.535

J. KIMS Technol > Volume 15(5); 2012 > Article

Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology 2012;15(5):535-542.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9766/KIMST.2012.15.5.535

The Development of Small-sized Launchable Robot for Reconnaissance

Seung-Ho Lee, Won-Suk Jung, Min-Gu Lee, Ji-Hyuk Park, Hyun-Soo Park, Kyu-Jae Yoo, Soo-Hyun Kim

¹KAIST
²Micro Automation

발사형 소형정찰 로봇 개발

이승호, 정원석, 이민구, 박지혁, 박현수, 유규제, 김수현

¹한국과학기술원
²마이크로오토메이션

Abstract

Recently, the study on small-sized reconnaissance robot has been progressed through grafting robot technology to military fields for minimizing the casualties. Especially, throwable robots have been focusing for their's efficiency in anti-terror operation. However, it is impossible to launch throwable robot to long range(approximately 100m) by hand. So we need another type of robots, so called launchable robots, which can launch farther and is more accurate by launcher. In this paper, we presented the process of developments of launchable robots('launchbot') which are available for remote launch from collection of user's opinions to field test. Based on the opinions of users, we established the goal of development, designed and manufactured the robots. Through the field test, we found that our launchable robot satisfied the performance requirements.

Key Words: Throwable Robot, Launchable Robot, Reconnaissance, Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle