A remote-controlled land and water traversing vehicle for flood search operation

Author

Abesamis, Jan Louis B. ; Mediodia, Alecsandra Marie F. ; Akol, Cris Joshua M. ; Quesea, Roselyn Patricia M. ; Sybingco, Edwin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., De La Salle Univ., Manila, Philippines

fYear

2014

fDate

12-16 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A remote controlled robot that can traverse on land and water with human detection for flood search operation has been made to aid rescuers and volunteers in conducting search operations. The robot can traverse on water and different types of terrain, namely wooden floor, cement, rocks and mud. It can handle an additional load of less than 8 lbs and a water current of 0.385 meters per second. It can be controlled of up to a distance of 290 meters, line-of-sight. The human detection algorithm achieved an accuracy of 93.6 percent in terms of detecting unique ROI for every set of 15 frames.

Keywords

floods; object detection; off-road vehicles; rescue robots; telerobotics; ROI; distance 290 m; flood search operation; human detection algorithm; land traversing vehicle; remote controlled robot; remote-controlled vehicle; water current; water traversing vehicle; Brushless DC motors; Mobile robots; Testing; Training; Haar-cascade training; flood search operation; human detection; microcontroller-based; remote-controlled vehicle;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment and Management (HNICEM), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palawan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4021-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HNICEM.2014.7016252

Filename

7016252