Design and Construction of Mobile Robot for Disposal of Hazardous Materials
摘要
In this paper, a mobile robot prototype has been developed that in the future could serve people to remotely control and remove various hazardous and non-explosive materials. The project has been developed with low cost, indicating that in the future it is not necessarily required to have very large investments to create a mobile device for demining or just for “pick and place”. The mobile platform has a robotic arm that can move accurately through hazardous areas to remove non-explosive materials. Additionally, this mobile device can overcome most obstacles encountered on the road, some of them even by passing over them. This project integrates a GPS that always informs us about its precise location. It also has two cameras that provide images of the terrain condition at any time. It is controlled by two Remote Controllers, one of which controls the robotic arm, while the other controls the robotic platform. The purpose of the robotic arm is the “pick and place” function. This robotic arm has five degrees of freedom and consists of servomotors with different power, each of which has a unique ID. The microcontroller used for this robotic arm is the CM-700. The robotic arm is controlled by a Remote Controller RC-100A, which continuously sends signals to the arm controller. The mobile robot structure is entirely made of metal because it is supposed to operate in tough and wet terrains.