RUDE-AL: Roped UGV Deployment Algorithm of an MCDPR for Sinkhole Exploration
Author:
Orbea David1ORCID, Cruz Ulloa Christyan1ORCID, Del Cerro Jaime1ORCID, Barrientos Antonio1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Centro de Automática y Robótica (UPM-CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid—Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Abstract
The presence of sinkholes has been widely studied due to their potential risk to infrastructure and to the lives of inhabitants and rescuers in urban disaster areas, which is generally addressed in geotechnics and geophysics. In recent years, robotics has gained importance for the inspection and assessment of areas of potential risk for sinkhole formation, as well as for environmental exploration and post-disaster assistance. From the mobile robotics approach, this paper proposes RUDE-AL (Roped UGV DEployment ALgorithm), a methodology for deploying a Mobile Cable-Driven Parallel Robot (MCDPR) composed of four mobile robots and a cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR) for sinkhole exploration tasks and assistance to potential trapped victims. The deployment of the fleet is organized with node-edge formation during the mission’s first stage, positioning itself around the area of interest and acting as anchors for the subsequent release of the cable robot. One of the relevant issues considered in this work is the selection of target points for mobile robots (anchors) considering the constraints of a roped fleet, avoiding the collision of the cables with positive obstacles through a fitting function that maximizes the area covered of the zone to explore and minimizes the cost of the route distance performed by the fleet using genetic algorithms, generating feasible target routes for each mobile robot with a configurable balance between the parameters of the fitness function. The main results show a robust method whose adjustment function is affected by the number of positive obstacles near the area of interest and the shape characteristics of the sinkhole.
Funder
RoboCity2030-DIH-CM, Madrid Robotics Digital Innovation Hub Programas de Actividades I+D en la Comunidad Madrid
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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