RoboCup Rescue 2016 Team Description Paper BART LAB Rescue Robotics Team ( Thailand )

BART LAB Rescue Robotics Team is from Thailand, has been participating in RoboCup both Regional and World RoboCup since 2006. BART LAB has won several awards from RoboCup, e.g., 2nd Prize from World RoboCup 2009, 3rd Prize from World RoboCup 2014, 1st Prize from RoboCup Japan Open in 2010 and 2011, 1st Prize from Thailand Rescue Robot Championship (Thai Open) in 2009. The team has also received acclaim during its participation in various international events. The team consists of two robots; one tele-operative robots and one autonomous robot with high mobility and completed navigation and vital sign sensing system. Their highly mobile attribute is a result of the four independently controlled flippers of the robots. The tele-operative robot is controlled using a controller while the autonomous robot navigates itself through the arena using a laser-scanner. The robots have similar physical structures and systems. The system used for mapping is SLAM whereas the one used for locomotion is the fuzzy logic algorithm. On the other hand, the physical structures consist of a platform and manipulator, where the manipulator contains the sensors required for victim detection. The main goal of our research and development team is to produce reliable rescue robots to employ in a real disaster situation around the world.