Intelligent Robotic Vehicle for Defense and Disaster Management

Abstract

Detection and removal of antipersonnel landmines is an important worldwide concern. A huge number of landmines has been deployed over the last twenty years, and demining will take several more decades, even if no more mines were deployed in future. An adequate mine-clearance rate can only be achieved by using new technologies such as improved sensors, efficient manipulators and mobile robots. Also human intervention is difficult in the areas of gas leaks and disaster management. This concept deals with the development of modular robot for defense and disaster management. The robot can effectively detect mines using the metal detector provided on the Robot. This makes detecting the underground mines easy. The concept also involves making the robot multitasked thus making it suitable for defense application. This involves addition of explosive sensor, Wireless camera for surveillance. Finally the robot is designed using modular approach which makes it easy to add more tasks on the robot and make it suitable for any applications just by changing the modules. Further the robot can function in autonomous as well as manual mode thereby making it fully versatile.