Land mine detecting robot capable of path planning

  • Authors:

  • Muhammad Zubair;Muhammad Ahmad Choudhry

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Systems and Control
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The purpose of Landmine detecting robot is to cover maximum possible area, presentation of landmines and the left over area on a visual map with accuracy in millimeters. This paper presents a prototype model of land mine detecting robot that is powerful yet low cost, easy controllable, having the required accuracy and is equipped with visual interface for landmines plotting, PID tuning and cameras alignment. Emphasis is placed on the control of the differential drive robot in auto mode, semi auto mode and the manual mode. The image processing is used to find the accurate position of robot which provides the live reckoning feedback to the dead reckoning servo control of the robot. Balance Beat metal detector is the sensor used to detect landmines. The use of graphical user interface for the remote terminal computer to control the robot provides the user a simple but powerful control. The overall aspiration of system is to provide the user a powerful, cost effective and the same time intelligible to an average user.