During the DHS/NIST 2011 Response Robot Evaluation Exercise a unique opportunity presented itself which allowed research teams from Carnegie Mellon University's Biorobotics Lab, Ryerson University's Network-Centric Applied Research Team (NCART) Lab, first responders from several different countries and a dog to collaborate to form a system which is capable of high-speed delivery of a tethered snake robot into a rubble pile using an USAR dog and a Canine Assisted Robot Deployment (CARD) system.
The video depicts two of several trials which demonstrated the principle. In this example, the USAR dog "Freitag" first did a practice trial outside with a "bark barrel". Then he penetrated 60' into a tunnel system under rubble pile 1 at TEEX "Disaster City" on the grounds of Texas A&M University. Both trials show third person video of the exercise, as well as first person video from the head of the snake robot.
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