Integration of new communications and mast subsystems on an Omni-Directional Inspection Robot (ODIS)

Shawn Hunt; Yung-Sen Li; Gary Witus; Steven Walter; R. Darin Ellis; Gregory Auner; Alex Cao; Abhilash Pandya

doi:10.1117/12.738078

15 October 2007 Integration of new communications and mast subsystems on an Omni-Directional Inspection Robot (ODIS)

Shawn Hunt, Yung-Sen Li, Gary Witus, Steven Walter, R. Darin Ellis, Gregory Auner, Alex Cao, Abhilash Pandya

Proceedings Volume 6736, Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks IV; 67360A (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.738078
Event: Optics/Photonics in Security and Defence, 2007, Florence, Italy

Abstract

Our research has focused on how to expand the capabilities of an Omni-Directional Inspection Robot (ODIS) to assist in vehicle inspections at traffic control checkpoints with a standoff distance of 450m. We have implemented an mast, extendible to eight feet, capable of carrying a sensor payload that has an RS-232 connection with a simple set of commands to control its operation. We have integrated a communications chain that provides the desired distance and sufficient speed to transmit a live digital feed to the operator control unit (OCU). We have also created a physically-based simulation of ODIS and our mast inside of Webots and have taken data to calibrate a motion response model.

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Shawn Hunt, Yung-Sen Li, Gary Witus, Steven Walter, R. Darin Ellis, Gregory Auner, Alex Cao, and Abhilash Pandya "Integration of new communications and mast subsystems on an Omni-Directional Inspection Robot (ODIS)", Proc. SPIE 6736, Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks IV, 67360A (15 October 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.738078

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