Design and Development of a Low-Cost Automated All-Terrain Intelligent Robotic Vehicle for Detection to Study Its Faults and Vulnerabilities from SWOT Perspective

Abstract

This scientific article highlights the development of an all-terrain intelligent robotic vehicle (ATIRV) platform, its overall structure, virtual modeling and simulation programs (such as Unity 5), electronic controls, and corresponding modules. This paper also shows the physical structure developed for the all-terrain intelligent vehicle and some of its components, which allow other modern robotic vehicles to operate autonomously and automatically in uncharted and dangerous environments. The practical part of the project has been developed by using state-of-the-art features like tele-metrics, tele-operation, drive assist modules, and autonomous navigation using the physical model of the all-terrain intelligent vehicle as structural model in the research experiment and for validating the initial hypothesis (of automatic ATIRV). Other scientific contributions consist in the determination of operational (kinematic and dynamic) parameters. Their comparison with reference values guides the paper’s discussions and conclusions.