AI Surveillance Robot

Natural and man-made disasters are serious problems in every country.

Robotics, Intelligent machine systems and devices are highly expected as effective
solutions in future. We already heard about conventional rescue robots. But here
we are introducing an Artificial Intelligent Surveillance Robot.
The total system consists of a vehicle part and a control station. The vehicle
part includes a Camera, Robotic Arm, Metal detector and a Water pump set. The
vehicle and the units can be controlled from a remote area. The robot has a built in
video camera, so that it can take real time video. This robot is capable for
firefighting also. Temperature and smoke sensors are used for detecting fire. When
fire is detected the water pump set in the vehicle can be used for extinguishing fire.
The vehicle also consists of a Robotic Arm which can be used for pick and place
any objects. The metal detector part is for detecting bombs and other dangerous
explosives.
The control part is a system. The controlling signals are transmitted to the
vehicle with the help of Zigbee module.

BLOCK DIAGRAM
Vehicle part

Temp.
Sensor

LCD

Smoke
Sensor

Metal
Detector

Microcontroller
PIC16F877a

Driver IC
L293D
(Vehicle
Motor
Driver)

M1

M2

M3
Driver IC
L293D (Arm
Control)

Zigbee Module

Wireless Cam

Driver IC ULN2003
(Pump Control)

M5

Microcontroller
The block diagram consists of the main part of the system is the
microcontroller PIC16F877A. All the processes and control actions are done on the
microcontroller. The microcontroller receives the commands from the control unit
is through a zigbee module. The zigbee module is interface with the
microcontroller is by serial port application. The commands that will be received is
processing and comparing. If the commands are by movement action, then the
vehicle motor driver will be activated and corresponding motors will operate
(M1,M2). These commands are for vehicle movement (i.e. forward, backward,
right, left and stop). If the commands, that are for picking the objects, then the arm
control motors are enable (M3). These motors interfaced with the microcontroller
are through a driver IC named L293D. If the robot have some sensors, that are hold
with them. If the temperature sensor and smoke sensors are used for detecting the
fire case. The output of these sensors is in an analog format, and then it will be
converted into digital. So the sensors are connected with the analog application.
The microcontroller has its own analog application. So the feature will be enabling.
If detect any fire condition, there will be another motor

(for operating the water

pump) will interface with the microcontroller. Also the metal detecting sensor will
be interfacing with the microcontroller. It for detecting the bomb. All the
operations will display on an LCD module that will be interfacing with the
microcontroller. Also a wireless cam, that will be built on the robot for transferring
the video images.
Zigbee Module
The zigbee module is used for receiving the control commands from the
control unit. The control commands that will receive and given into the

microcontroller. The zigbee module is interface with the microcontroller is by

serial port application. The component used for zigbee module is XBee. It has
2.5GHz frequency.
ZigBee technology is a low data rate, low power consumption, low cost
wireless networking protocol targeted towards automation, remote monitoring and
control application. It is a robust, light weight wireless networking protocol that
builds upon IEEE 802.15.4 standard. This standard defines a short range low
power low data rate wireless interface specially designed for small devices that
have limited power, CPU and memory resources .The zigbee module operates
within the ISM 2.4 GHz frequency band and are pin-for-pin compactable with each
other. ZigBee protocols are intended for embedded applications requiring low data
rates and low power consumption. The resulting network will use very small
amounts of power. Individual devices must have a battery life of at least two years
to pass ZigBee certification.
Motors
Here there are five motors are interface with the microcontroller. Two of
them are for vehicle movement and two of them are for arm control. These four
motor are interface with the microcontroller is by a driver IC named L293D. The
fifth motor is for operating the water pump set. This motor will interface with the
driver IC ULN2003.
Driver IC
The current from the microcontroller is not sufficient to drive the motors. To
boost the current driver ICs are used.

LCD
LCDS serves as a useful interface for the user. The most common type of
LCD controller is the Hitachi 44780 which provides a relatively simple interface
between microcontroller and LCD. The LCD has 16 character x 2 line display
facility. The message to be displayed is send to the LCD through data-bus. A set of
control lines are needed to proper displaying of the characters in LCD. The
operations doing by crane is displayed in the LCD.
Temperature Sensor
The temperature sensor converts ambient (room) temperature into a voltage
varying signal. The temperature sensor is used here is LM35.
Smoke Sensor
The smoke sensor is an optical type detector whose output voltage depends
on the purity of air. The output voltage changes if room is filled with smoke. The
smoke sensor includes an LDR component and an LED.
Metal Detector
The metal detector is used for bomb detection. The metal detector includes a
proximity sensor.

Control Unit

Zigbee

PC

Level Converter
IC MAX232

Wireless Cam
Receiver

Zigbee Module
The zigbee module is used for transferring the control commands from the
PC. The zigbee module is interfacing with the PC is through a level converter IC.
Level Converter
The level converter is used for the level conversion between the zigbee
module and PC. The zigbee has TTL logic level and the PC has RS232 logic level.
For the conversion of these two logic levels the level converter is used. Here we
used the level converter IC is MAX232.
PC
The PC application is used for taking the control commands for the robot.
Alsot the video images are playing on the PC.