Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 958–963
S. Venkatesh1, Rodney Lobo2, and Nidhin Sugunan3
1 Instrumentation Technology Department, R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2 Instrumentation Technology Department, R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
3 Instrumentation Technology Department, R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Original language: English
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Communication is one of the important parameter which barricades itself during disasters. Along with this, the other problem is measurement of physical conditions of the calamity struck region. There must be simple ways to tackle them. The purpose of this paper is to unveil such a system which remains active at all times, and is fault-tolerant with respect to any unexpected events such as a natural disaster. Hence, it mainly involves transmission of distress signals, warning signals and other information related to disaster relief. These signals are acquired using an all terrain Unmanned Ground Vehicle. The signals and the physical properties of the region like gas leakage, damaged terrain etc. are sent to the ground station using a high altitude repeater called the airborne system, which is tethered to the ground.
Author Keywords: Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), Airborne system, pulse width modulation (PWM), payload, ground station, communication, ultrasonic transceiver, Zigbee transceiver, flight termination unit (FTU).
S. Venkatesh1, Rodney Lobo2, and Nidhin Sugunan3
1 Instrumentation Technology Department, R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2 Instrumentation Technology Department, R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
3 Instrumentation Technology Department, R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Communication is one of the important parameter which barricades itself during disasters. Along with this, the other problem is measurement of physical conditions of the calamity struck region. There must be simple ways to tackle them. The purpose of this paper is to unveil such a system which remains active at all times, and is fault-tolerant with respect to any unexpected events such as a natural disaster. Hence, it mainly involves transmission of distress signals, warning signals and other information related to disaster relief. These signals are acquired using an all terrain Unmanned Ground Vehicle. The signals and the physical properties of the region like gas leakage, damaged terrain etc. are sent to the ground station using a high altitude repeater called the airborne system, which is tethered to the ground.
Author Keywords: Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), Airborne system, pulse width modulation (PWM), payload, ground station, communication, ultrasonic transceiver, Zigbee transceiver, flight termination unit (FTU).
How to Cite this Article
S. Venkatesh, Rodney Lobo, and Nidhin Sugunan, “Controlling Unmanned Ground Vehicle using Stationary Airborne System,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 958–963, September 2014.