GPS And GSM Based Robot For War Field Surveillance Projects For Final Year Engineering Students                         

Introduction:

MOBILE robot navigation has stood as an open and challenging problem over the last few decades. Despite the significant advances in this field, researchers have yet to reach a comfortable level of satisfaction. To date, most of the robot navigation algorithms proposed in the literature are either tailored toward particular structured environments or driven by an overwhelming degree of computational complexity. In some cases, the hardware needed to implement the algorithm can be more costly than the robot itself. This makes the practical realization of such algorithms in most real-world robotic systems questionable. This paper contributes to the efforts of developing practical, modular, and easy-to-implement robot navigation algorithms that are both cost and computationally effective. The proposed algorithm takes advantage of the emerging GSM technology and a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) to guide the robot to navigate in its working space given these shortcomings, researchers shifted their interest to vision-based navigation to improve the robot position estimation by tracing the visual features in the environment and using them as landmarks. This measurement usually returns bearing to the visual features only, with no a priori knowledge of the landmark positions. Nevertheless, such a technique also has its disadvantages, which include the lack of information depth, complex image processing algorithms with high computational burden, and its dependence on the working environment. This problem can be alleviated by adopting behavior-based navigation systems, as they can incorporate a relatively large number of sensors, making them suitable for navigation in unstructured environments. However, relying on numerous sensors makes the system vulnerable to drifts and cumulative errors. To overcome this shortcoming, some researchers used artificial landmarks to compensate for these errors. a novel navigation technique in which GSM protocol is used with GPS.

Block diagram explanation :

Power supply unit:

    This section needs two voltages viz., +12 V & +5 V, as working voltages. Hence specially designed power supply is constructed to get regulated power supplies.

ARM processor:

  ARM is a computer processor-based RISC architecture. A RISC-based computer design approach means ARM processors require significantly fewer transistors than typical processors in average computers. This approach reduces costs, heat, and power use. The low power consumption of ARM processors has made them very popular:

The ARM architecture (32-bit) is the most widely used in mobile devices, and the most popular 32-bit one in embedded systems.

ARM processor features include:

• Load/store architecture.
• An orthogonal instruction set.
• Mostly single-cycle execution.
• A 16×32-bit register
• Enhanced power-saving design.

Buffers:

  Buffers do not affect the logical state of a digital signal (i.e. a logic 1 input results in a logic 1 output whereas logic 0 input results in a logic 0 output). Buffers are normally used to provide extra current drive at the output but can also be used to regularize the logic present at an interface.

Drivers:

                     This section is used to drive the relay where the output is the complement of input which is applied to the drive but the current will be amplified.

Relays:

   It is an electromagnetic device that is used to drive the load connected across the relay and the o/p of the relay can be connected to the controller or load for further processing.

Indicator:

               This stage provides a visual indication of which relay is actuated and deactivated, by glowing respective    LED or Buzzer.

Methodology:

   A block diagram which is shown above is divided into two parts that are transmitter and receiver. The transmitter part is which is in the base station and can be controlled by an authorized person consider in the border area head. First, to control the receiver part that is the robot he should enter the key input which is in this system we are using an ARM controller device at the transmitting end. Once the authorized person enters the key inputs he can control the at the receiver end which at the military border the wireless communication takes via GSM and location identification through GPS.

Advantages:

1.  Wireless control
2. Surveillance System.
3. Vehicle Navigation with the use of 3G technology.
4. Takes in use of mobile technology which is almost available everywhere.
5. This wireless device has no foundation of range and can be controlled as far as a network of cell phones.

Disadvantages:

In this project usage of relays leads to consuming more power.

Applications:

1. The main purpose for designing this robot is to implement it in the defense sector to sense humans and detect weapons/bombs with the human or buried in a place where humans cannot fetch them.
2. The sensors with smaller range frequencies are sufficient to install this robot in residents.
3. The sensors with very high frequencies are required to install this robot in the IT industries
4. This robot can be installed in banks, especially in the places where jewels are kept (locker area).
5. In educational institutions, this robot can play a vital role in the areas of libraries and laboratories where valuable equipment is kept.

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