Frag Out! Magazine
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During multiple operations carried out by military, law en- forcement or rescue services situations which may be a potential thread for health and/or life of people who are involved in such activities can occur. In order to minimise this threat, humans are being replaced by robots which excecute dangerous tasks instead of them. The integrated mobile system supporting CT and SAR operations developed as a part of the Proteus project is an answer for a numerous challenges faced by servi- ces responsible for public safety: natural disasters such as floods or terrorist threats including chemical and biological attacks. The Proteus Project is a result of more than 5 years of work over one of the largest research and deve- lopment projects of this type in Poland (total project budget was around 20 million USD). It was realised by the consortium of science centres leaded by the PIAP Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurement. Its technical and operational require- ments were defined in cooperation with the future users (the police, firefighters, crisis management cen- tres). The Proteus is an operational system which consists of the cooperating elements which provide effective so- lutions to defeat every kind of the threat. One of them is a RMI Mobile Intervention Robot developed in PIAP The RMI is modular, medium-sized tracked UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) with a weight of 95 kilo- grams, intended for use everywhere where police of- ficers, paramedics or members of the rescue services could be exposed to injuries or even death. First of all, it is about operating in the biohazard contaminated environment (or potentially threatened by the conta- mination), a neutralisation of the explosives or perfor- ming tactical operations under enemy fire. The relatively compact dimensions, a low weight, su- spension type and tracks enable the RMI to run inside the buildings or rough terrain. A modular construction and a size of the RMI enable its easy disassembling and transport inside the 4x4 truck or SUV. The robot perfectly fulfils a gap between other PIAP bots like IBIS heavy-weight UGV and a SCOUT lightweight UGV. The modularity of construction of the RMI might be called two-level. The first level is available for a ma- nufacturer and its based on components common for all variants of the RMI allowing to build vehicle to www.fragoutmag.com