Toward GPS based vehicle
J. Reasor, Chan Yet Wong, Uvais Ahmed Qidwai · 2006
In this paper a distributed strategy is presented applied to autonomous robotic ground vehicle. While the actual full-scale implementation is not very far away, this work presents a small-scale prototype built using custom designs and off-theshelf components. In a nutshell, the vehicle takes the position coordinates from the GPS satellites directly without any ground-based booster and calculates the trajectory in real time. In doing so, any local obstacles and unwanted path defects can be detected and avoided by using intelligent sensor network that detects and identifies the obstacle type and recommends counter measures to the central controller. The vehicle is intended for unmanned industrial as well as military applications.