CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION

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1.1 BACKGROUND:
The military funding of science has had a powerful transformative effect on the practice and products of scientific research since the early 20th century. Particularly since World War I, advanced science-based technologies have been viewed as essential elements of a successful military. World War I is often called "the chemists war", both for the extensive use of poison gas and the importance of nitrates and advanced high explosives. World War II marked a massive increase in the military funding of science, particularly physics. In addition to the Manhattan Project and the resulting atomic bomb, British and American work on radar was widespread and ultimately highlyinfluential in the course of the war; radar enabled detection of enemy ships and aircraft, as well as the radar-based proximity faze. Mathematical cryptography, Fig1: 3-D model meteorology, and rocket science were also central to the war effort, with militaryfunded wartime advances having a significant long-term effect on each discipline. Nepal, country of Himalaya, country of brave armies is still far away from such a technology thats why we are facing problems in the battle field. So we are planning to design a device A Robot which can be tracked with the GPS system and can be operated from the remote location. It will be a four wheeled supported with the four high power motors such that robot will be provided with the obstacle detection technique using the ultrasound. The robot will be provided with the facilities of voice control. It will be so powerful that it can be taken to any place where it may be dangerous to army or we can say a human to be. This whole project will be just a prototype with the features that can be operated with in a limited range. But it will be

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designed in such a way that it can be easily enhanced to make it useful in the real life with a little bit more investment in the project. Technology is one of the integral parts to everyone today; use of technology is making our life easier and safe. Most of the worlds army and technology are already become two inseparable parts but still we do not have such scenario in case of our country. Without the use of technological knowledge and its implementation we cant feel true freedom anymore, thats why we are focusing on such a project as our major project. It is true that we are called as the true fighter, brave warrior who never lose but as time passes scenario of world changes and things changes and the concept of making the nation safe from its enemy has changed and its all due to advancement in the technology. So it is the time to rethink and be change according to trend of worlds change and it can be only achieved via the use of new advance technology. So we are trying to play a simple role in achieving all these.

1.2 FEATURES:
Provide with the voice control facilities via RF module. Voice control over the range of more than 500m using the RF signal of VHF band. Provided with the 4 wheel drive system, controlled with the 4 different power full motors. Provided with the ultrasound obstacle detection technique on the way. Provided with the wireless camera to transmit the video over the long distance. Provide with the GPS tracking device to track and find its location at the remote location. Provided with the robotic arm to handle different objects. Provided with facilities that it can detect any wireless devices operating around it.

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1.3 SCOPE AND USES:

It can be highly used in the military application as a robotic army It can be used in surveillance of any remote location. It can be used as the security system of any buildings or any places. It can be used to carry weight from one location to another location using RF

1.4 GENERAL METHODOLOGY:

The whole project will be totally based on the research papers and projects which has already done before. Internet is the main source of information for whole project and support from our teachers and seniors is the main source of the information to carried out the whole project successfully. At first we will study all how the system can be made, material required and at the same time, availability of such materials in Nepali market will also be studied. Then we will study and work on the mechanical part and its construction in our college workshop. Next step of the project will be the design of the circuits to run the robot or simply to give life to robot. Then whole circuit will be implemented in the mechanical body we made to achieve the goals as defined previously in its features. Finally the robot will be ready to run.

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CHAPTER-2 LITERATURE REVIEW

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2.1 CONCEPT OF WHOLE PROJECT:

The whole concept is designed as per the requirement for the Nepali army force. At first we were only thinking about the simple tank that can be used in war then we realize that only a simple tank cant be a complete solution, it should be provided with the different features so that it can be used at the different fields as well. The initial concept was derived from video downloaded from youtube.com and it was named as The Mega Bot 4-Wheel Drive Robotic Platform YouTube this project was already done in USA but it was provided with only the limited number of the features such as remote control, powerful 4 wheel drive system, wireless camera and so on. The whole mechanical design of our robot is taken from there as it was already made in such a way that it can withstand the weight up to 120 kg this is the main reason why we choose this design for our robot. As in already mentioned robot it was controlled with the help of the remote control then we realized it could be a common thing to do as all are doing same so we moved toward the voice control for the robot. So we studied how we can control any machine with the help of voice from the project on titled Voice Controlled Wheel Chair and it was the project already done as a prototype by an MIT team they are working with the residence at a care home in Boston. It was done in 2005 A.D. so in our project we are going to replace the remote control system with the voice control system over the RF signal form one position to any remote location. Obstacle detection features is already done using the ultrasound in sight stick project as one of the minor project in our college. We took reference from our friends to accomplish the task of obstacle detection. In this, one ultrasound will transmit signal and other will be used to receive the signal, if transmitted signal will strike on any obstacle then it will reflected back and will be received by receiver, such a happening will inform the robot that it will going to strike on any obstacle. Hence in this way obstacle detection can be accomplished.

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The whole of the above mentioned techniques are used only for the manual operation of the robot. At first we were quite satisfied with that but then we realized that why not to make it automatic then we moved to it. So we finally divide our system into two parts one is manual using the voice command and then the automatic operation. After having search we come to the point that automatic operation can be accomplished with the help of GPS and GSM modules. We take this reference form the project on titled Vehicle Tracking System using GPS and GSM modem it was a project done already and it was done by the Microtronics Technologies in this project it is said that the GPS modem will send the coordinate of the location where robot is to microcontroller then microcontroller will forward its location to GSM modem then it will forward that coordinate in the form of longitude and latitude to any remote location from where we can control the given robot. We are planning to add a robotic arm on robots and it was the project done last year on titled ROBOTIC ARM WITH WRITING ABILITY we take a reference form that project to integrate it in our project. It was one of the award winning project of last year so this project become a great source of information to us to make a robotic arm. Our whole project is the collaboration of all the above mentioned projects into a single project. Whole project will be carried out by considering all above mentioned points and projects.

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CHAPTER-3 SYSTEM OVERVIEW

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3.1 SYSTEM DISCRIPTION:

This is just a prototype of a Robot with the different features as specified. The whole robot will be controlled with the help of voice commend through the RF module at the remote location. The robot will be provided with the wireless camera such that it will be able to transmit the video from such location to the base commands. It will be also provided with the facility of the obstacle detection using the ultrasound so that it will never collide with any obstacles that will appeared in front of it. Whole system of robot can be operated in the two ways which are described as follows:

3.2 Manual operation:

In this case robot will be operated using the voice command at any remote location such that it should be within the range of RF. The robot will work according to the command that it will receive from us.

RF Transmitter VOICE COMMAND

RF receiver

ROBOT

Fig2.1: Diagram of manual operation.

3.3 Voice control mechanism:

To control the system through voice we use HM2007 speech recognition integrated circuit provides the option of recognizing either forty.96 second words or twenty 1.92

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second words. This circuit allows the users to choose either the .96 second word length (40 word vocabulary) or the 1.92 second word length(20 word vocabulary).The chip has two operational modes: manual mode and CPU mode. The CPU mode is designed to allow the chip to work under a host computer. Also speech recognition is classified into two categories, speaker dependent and speaker independent. Speaker dependent systems are trained by the individual who will be using the system. Speaker independent is a system trained to respond to a word regardless of who speaks. There is two step; at first we will train the voice then voice recognition will be proceed.

3.4 Automatic operation:

In this mode of operation we can use this robot at the remote location which will be beyond the range of RF. It will be done with the help of GPS system and GSM module. In robot tracking project we can track the location of our robot. This project gives minutes by minutes updates about robot location by sending sms through GSM modem this sms contains longitude and latitude of the location of the robot. Microcontroller is the central processing unit CPU of our project. Microcontroller gets the coordinates from GPS modem and then sends this information to the user in text sms. GSM modem is used to send this information via sms.sms will be send to the owner of the robot. In GPS tracking system the location of the robot is send to remote place and it is done by the GSM modem. Global positioning system (GPS) modem required minimum 3 satellites to calculate the exact location. These modems communicate only in single way with microcontroller. This means that it can only transmit data to microcontroller. GPS modem does not receive any data from microcontroller at the same time GPS modem does not send data to satellite.

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Voltage source

LCD display GPS modem

Microcontroller GSM modem

Fig 2.2: block diagram for the GPS tracking system

3.5 OBSTACLE DETECTION:

To detect the obstacle coming in the way of robot we are using ultrasound module having two different ultra sound such that one is used as transmitter and another is used as the receiver. When obstacle will appeared in front of the given robot them the receiving one will receive the ultrasound reflected signal and it will come to know that robot is approaching the obstacle then robot will be stop and returned back and turn left or right. This simple approach can be shown in a flowchart as:

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Move robot

Transmit signal and check for received signal at receiving ultrasound

Yes
Received any signal

No

Stop robot and move back then turn right or left as command

Keep on checking for the received signal

Fig: Flow chart for obstacle detection

3.6 ROBOTIC ARM:

Our robot will be provided with the help of robotic arm. The arm will be simple that can carry only simple things. The arm will be provided with the help of the 4 different steeper motor so that it will have some capacity to carry things as per specified command.

3.7 MECHANICAL BODY:

Construction of the robot will start with its frame design then it will be provided with the 4 wheels such that they will be provided with 4 powerful motors that can move robot at every situation of the way. Its fist look of frame will be as:

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Fig3.1Concept sketch of the robot Then we will implement it in the following form using the steel frame:

Fig3.2 Mechanical part of the robot Next step will be to fix motors and wheels and then electronic circuits to give it life so that it can work and it will be like this:

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Fig 3.3: Battle tested components Finally the robot will be provided with all its features and it will look like this:

camera

Fig3.4: With adding camera on the board

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CHAPTER-4 EXPECTED RESULT

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This robot will be one of the finest robots we have ever had at our college level projects. It will be provided with all the above mentioned features so that it will be very helpful for army. The robots will be provided with the help of very fine wireless camera which can transmit live video over the range more than 500m so that it can be used in surveillances purpose as well. Other result that we expect are as mentioned below:

4.1 MANUAL OPERATION:

In case of manual operation, robot will be able to be controlled at the range of more than 500m using the voice command. As we are transmitting the voice signal using a microphone which in turn will be passed to ADC and then transmitted via the antenna of the RF module. The transmitted signal will then be received by the receiving RF module which will be fixed in robot. Hence, in this way we can achieve all the manual operation of the robot.

4.2 AUTOMATIC OPERATION:

In case of automatic operation of robot it will sends us its GPS coordinates via GSM modem to our cell phone then depending upon that coordinate we can locate the position of the robot with the help of Google map. We are planning to use SIM 510 so that we can get the correct coordinate of the robot within the 1 minute of the time or we can say coordinate that is within the range covered by a circle of 1m radius. As we get the coordinate within the range of circle of 1m radius then we will be easily able to locate the exact position of the robot with the help of Google map.

4.3 OBSTACLE DETECTION:

As our search, the ultrasound will be able to find any obstacle on its way at a distance 20 cm from it, so that our robots either in case of manual or automatic mode of operation will never get collide with any obstacle. We will provide the robot with two

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ultrasound module so that we can detect any obstacle in its front as well as in its back so that the robot will not strike any obstacle while moving in the backward direction.

4.4 ROBOTIC ARM:

This robot will be provided with special type of robotic arm so that it will be able to carry any objects as we specify from our voice command or remote control. It will be made with the help of stepper motor so it will give very high precision of its operation.

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CHAPTER-5 COST AND TIME ESTIMATION

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We are planning to start the work from the month of January, 2014 and complete it at September. As per our preplan the timing and cost estimation are as shown:

5.1 GANTT CHART:

S.N. Activities 1 2 Planning Collection material 4 Mechanical design 5 Electronic circuit design 6 7 Documentation Testing verification 8 Implementation and of Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Sep

5.2 MATERIAL REQUIRED:

S.N. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Material Required Ultra sound module Microcontroller(PIC16F877A) RF module(long range) Wiper motor Standard wheels(with grip) Wireless camera Microphone HM2007 voice IC Quantity Estimated cost 3 2 1 4 4 1 1 2

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9 10 11 12 13 14

GSM modem +GPS modem SIM510 Stepper motor PCB board Hollow metal rod LCD module Plastic sheet to make arm

1 5 3 10m. 1

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CHAPTER-6 CONCLUSION, DISCUSSION AND REFRENCES

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6.1 CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION:

This project is mainly imagined, designed and going to be implemented for Nepali army. But it could be also useful in the field of surveillances, security of any buildings; it can also be used in mines and so on. It shows that this robot could be a friend and a savvier when we take security concern into account. It can also used as a carrier of goods as well. The main purpose as a student of this project is to learn ROBOTICS and AUTOMAION here in this project we are using voice commend to control the robot means we are trying to learn audio processing which is a vast emerging field in electronics and communication. We are using GPS and GSM modem technology to operate robot in automatic mode means we want to learn about mobile technology and GPS satellite technology. Through this project even after being a student of Electronics and Communication we are trying to learn the collaborative operation of mechanical and electronic components. Up to now its already been a great feeling for us to learn about above mentioned topics.

6.2 RECOMMENDATION:
This project is a combination of a large number of the different concepts and technology. So we would like to request our college to support us to complete our project by proving us with all the required materials we need during our project, only after that we can complete our task in time.

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REFRENCES
www.projectsof8051.com/vehicle-tracking-system-usinggps-and-gsm-modem/ www.circuitstoday.com/how-globle-positioning-systemgps-works/ www.linxtechnologies.com/en/products/modules/ir-rftransmitter-receiver www.electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/circuitarchives/vi ew-article.asp

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