Design of a Smart Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Hazardous Environments

A smart Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) is designed and developed for some application specific missions to operate predominantly in hazardous environments. In our work, we have developed a small and lightweight vehicle to operate in general cross-country terrains in or without daylight. The UGV can send visual feedbacks to the operator at a remote location. Onboard infrared sensors can detect the obstacles around the UGV and sends signals to the operator.Comment: In proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS-08), pp. 222-225, Feb 7-9, 2008, Kolkat