Obstacle avoidance and wireless network surveillance of a weapon robot

As one of the major steps toward fully intelligent autonomous robotic weapon, this paper works have accomplished in three major areas: (1) design of the surveillance system by 89C51 microcomputers, (2) implementation of the obstacle avoidance system, and (3) performance of the human machine interface surveillance system via LabVIEW graphical programming environment and wireless network surveillance equipment, such that the supervisor can control the vehicle by keyboard or genius mouse. In order to accomplish all these three achievements, there have been major additions and overhaul in both system software code and system circuit board developments. All these development including the developed algorithm, and hardware implementation are covered in this paper. The experimental results have shown the practicality of the 89C51 microcomputer, obstacle avoidance systems, LabVIEW graphical programming environment, wireless network surveillance equipment, and the ZigBee wireless technology applied to weapon robots.