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A marsupial robot with strong practicability for coal mine rescue is presented with the discussion and analysis to the complicated environment in the mine disaster and the existing robots for coal mine rescue. The marsupial robot mainly consists of a mother robot and a baby robot. The mother robot carrying the baby robot comes into the mine well under the tele-operation of the command center. When meeting impassable obstacles or is trapped, the mother robot releases the baby robot. Then, the baby robot will go further into the mine well by itself to rescue the survivors. The marsupial robot not only enlarges the scale of rescue, but also increases the probability of successfully rescuing the trapped miners. Consequently the rescue task can be completed perfectly. The marsupial robot has a good potential of development and perspective of application.
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Zhao, J., Liu, G., Liu, Y., Zhu, Y. (2008). Research on the Application of a Marsupial Robot for Coal Mine Rescue. In: Xiong, C., Liu, H., Huang, Y., Xiong, Y. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88518-4_120
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