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Recent R&D Technologies and Future Prospective of Flying Robot in Tough Robotics Challenge

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Disaster Robotics

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This chapter contains from Sects. 3.1 to 3.5. Section 3.1 describes firstly the definition of drones and recent trends. The important functions of the search and rescue flying robot are also generally described. And, Sect. 3.1 consists of an overview of R&D technologies of flying robot in Tough Robotics Challenge and a technical and general discussion about a future prospective of flying robot including the real disaster survey and technical issues. Namely, drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) should be going to real and bio-inspired flying robot.

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    https://www.hark.jp/.

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    https://developer.arm.com/technologies/neon.

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This work was supported by Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies (ImPACT) Tough Robotics Challenge program of Japan Science and Technology (JST) Agency.

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  1. Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory, Chiba, Japan

    Kenzo Nonami

  2. Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan

    Kotaro Hoshiba

  3. Tokyo Institute of Technology/Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

    Kazuhiro Nakadai

  4. Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

    Makoto Kumon

  5. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshi G. Okuno

  6. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasutada Tanabe

  7. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan

    Koichi Yonezawa

  8. Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

    Hiroshi Tokutake

  9. Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan

    Satoshi Suzuki

  10. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Kohei Yamaguchi & Shigeru Sunada

  11. Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

    Takeshi Takaki

  12. Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    Toshiyuki Nakata & Hao Liu

  13. Kanto Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan

    Ryusuke Noda

  14. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Satoshi Tadokoro

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Nonami, K. et al. (2019). Recent R&D Technologies and Future Prospective of Flying Robot in Tough Robotics Challenge. In: Tadokoro, S. (eds) Disaster Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05321-5_3

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