Dragon RunnerPresented by: Chai Ozeri & Miki Shifman

Algorithmic Robotics and Motion Planning

Tel Aviv University

May 2013

Dragon Runner

•  Military robot built for urban combat

• Remote manually controlled

• Can be carried in a backpack and thrown to unreachable locations

• Very rugged

• Designed in CMU, developed in Automatika Inc.

• Was first used in Iraq at 2004

Modes of action

• Drive mode

• Sentry mode

• Watch mode

Technical Details

• 38cm long, less than 30cm wide

• Weighs 4.5kg

• Moves in 6.5km/h

• Max arm lift: 2.5kg

Technical Details (cont.)

• Carries a microphone and night-vision front and rear cameras

• Can be thrown from a moving vehicle at 70 km/h• Or a third-story window

• Can operate on both sides (flipping doesn’t matter)

Degrees of Freedom

Dragon Runner – Discovery

Dragon Runner – Automatika