NOVEL METHOD TO THROW A TUBE INTO HIGH ALTITUDES FOR A THROW AND COLLECT TYPE RESCUE INSPECTOR

摘要

This research proposes the development of a Throw and Collect inspecting device composed by a throwing mechanism, a drawing mechanism, and a child machine, aiming the enhancement of the accessibility to disaster sites. Past reports concentrated on the throwing mechanism, enabling to throw the child machine high in the air with a pneumatically driven novel unit called Magnetic Brake Cylinder [1]. In this report, methods to throw a tethered child machine are discussed in order to obtain higher throws while using the same available pneumatic energy as when throwing a wireless child machine. Simulation of these methods is compared to experimental results, and a difference of only 10% of height between wireless and tethered throws is verified.