To participate in the Standard Disaster Robotics Challenge in the Disaster Robotics Category at the World Robot Challenge in the World Robot Summit 2020 Fukushima Competition, we have developed a main-replica type controller using which anyone can easily control the disaster robot. The two student operators finished second in the competition despite having only five hours of practice time. In this study, we present the results of surveying the essential elements of a controller for disaster response robots, and introduce the controller that is designed and implemented based on the survey.

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