This paper describes the development of High Power EOD Robot. EOD robots have been developed to prevent personal injury that can occur in the process of directly handling explosives by humans. The explosives disposal process is divided into explosives detection, transportation, and processing. An important component of the explosives handling robot in this process is a manipulator and a mobile platform capable of carrying mission equipment for explosives handling.
It is also composed of a remote control device and a perception device to improve operator convenience. Existing EOD robots have a low payload on the manipulator compared to the weight of the platform, and are not easy to move at a high speed when moving at the explosives handling site, which has limited utilization. In addition, there was a problem of low utilization due to a lack of various mission equipment required for explosive treatment.
In this paper, The author suggests a high-power EOD robot system that improves the problem of low payload compared to the weight of the existing EOD robot system manipulator, improves the movement speed of the EOD robot and complements the constraints of mission equipment when moving on site.
The high-power EOD robot system proposed in this paper designed a variable shape mobile platform with a four-track independent drive structure that can be operated in various terrains and a high-power manipulator with a payload of 25kgf or more in an EOD robot under 100kg. In addition, various mission equipments can be installed so that EOD personnel can easily perform missions. The components of the proposed high-power EOD robot system were designed and fabricated, and basic performance tests and operational scenario tests were performed to confirm the availability in real environments for the characteristics test of the high-power explosives handling robot. Through characteristic tests, the utility of the proposed high-power explosive handling robot was verified.