Implementing behaviour based control in an autonomous mine detecting robot (amdr)

Abstract

This paper presents the experimental results of a novel behaviour based controller implemented. 9n a medium sized laboratory made robot called Autonomous Mine Detecting Robot(AMDR) developed at Industrial Automation Research Centre for humanitarian demining purposes. Humanitarian demining is a very urgent and necessary activity to be carried out in landmine affected countries. Most of the land mine affected countries are developing Asian and African countries. There is no suitable mine detecting robot that can be used in these developing countries due to its high cost and also due to the environmental conditions prevailing in tropical countries. An autonomous robot will solve these problems and prevents human involvements in humanitarian demining which is very risky.