Next-Generation Surveillance Robots That Analyze Their Environment

Scientific New: Next-Generation Surveillance Robots That Analyze Their Environment

Manned surveillance missions are critical to obtaining useful intelligence. Pero el envío de un soldado en zonas sensibles a menudo puede ser muy peligroso. But sending a soldier into sensitive areas can often be too dangerous. Los científicos están desarrollando robots que podrían hacer el trabajo. Scientists are developing robots that could do the job. La primavera pasada, el Laboratorio de Tecnologías Avanzadas de Lockheed Martin dio a conocer un prototipo que utiliza sensores para modelar su entorno, detectar las posibles amenazas, calcular la línea de visión, y encontrar buenos lugares escondidos. Last spring, the Advanced Technologies Laboratory at Lockheed Martin unveiled a prototype that uses sensors to model its environment, detect potential threats, calculate lines of sight, and locate good hiding places.

La próxima generación de robots de vigilancia probablemente combinar sensores similares a los del prototipo, con más la poderosa inteligencia artificial y un cuerpo sigiloso. Next-generation surveillance robots will probably combine sensors similar to those on the prototype with more-powerful artificial intelligence and a stealthy body. Uno de estos dispositivos podría ser el snakebot, desarrollado por un equipo del Laboratorio de Biomecánica Biorobotics y en el Instituto Technion-Israel de Tecnología. One such device could be the snakebot, developed by a team at the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Lab at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. El robot podría infiltrarse en las tuberías de aguas residuales, meterse debajo de tablas, o la bobina hacia arriba y en posición vertical para una mejor visión. The robot could infiltrate sewage pipes, crawl under floorboards, or coil up and stand upright for a better view. Incluso podría arrojar a uno de sus segmentos, de dejar a los errores de audio o de ojivas explosivas para misiones de asesinato. It could even shed one of its segments, dropping off audio bugs or explosive warheads for assassination missions.

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Snakebot six feet (above) consists of polymer segments connected by flexible joints and is driven by electric motors. The six-foot snakebot (top) Consists of polymer segments connected by flexible joints and is powered by electric motors. Motion control is based on software that determines the best mode of travel, twisting, rolling, corkscrew, for each situation. Relie on software control Movement That Determines the best mode of travel-wriggling, rolling, corkscrewing-'for each situation. Sidewinding is the fastest, but requires good traction, inching forward by the rolling of the body is slower, but works in confined spaces, may be easier to roll on a flat surface. But is fastest Sidewinding Requires good traction, inching forward by undulating the body is Slower in confined spaces works But, May Be Easiest rolling on a flat surface. The snakebot also can rise up the stairs and other vertical obstacles. The snakebot Can Also climb stairs rise up to vertical and other Obstacles.