International Journal of Advanced Research in Electronics and Communication Engineering (IJARECE)

Volume 4, Issue 2, February 2015

Camouflage Technique Based Multifunctional

Army Robot
Dipak Patil , Himali Patil , Abhijeet Patil , Sunil Kalal,

Dept. Electronics and Telecommunication

SIEM, Mahiravani
Nashik, India
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Abstract— Nowadays, many expenses are made in the It has built in with Proximity metal sensor for detecting
field of defense in adopting primitive security measures metal and MQ6 gas sensor for harmful gas detection.
to protect the border from the trespassers. Some military
organizations take the help of robot in the risk prone II. BLOCK DIAGRAM
areas which are not that effective when done by army
men. These Army robots are confining with the camera,
sensors, metal detector and video screen. The main POWER SMART
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SUPPLY PHONE
objective of our system is to get camouflaged including G
some additional parameters like blue-tooth module for B
real time data processed by the camera at the video L
screen and PIR sensor to trace the intruders.. Thus the E
S D
proposed system using blue-tooth reduces errors at COLOR /
defense and keeps the nation secure from the foe. SENSOR M
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Keywords – Blue-tooth Module,Army robot,PIR sensor, ROC S
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Wireless Camera and Color Sensor. ONT /
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I. INTRODUCTION
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A robot is an automatic mechanical device often W
resembling a human or animal. Modern robots are usually an
guided by a computer program or electronic circuitry.
Robots have replaced humans in performing repetitive and
dangerous tasks. The use of robots in military combat raises GAS PIR METAL
SENSO
ethical concerns. The possibilities of robot autonomy and MOTO BLUE- R
SENSO SENSO
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potential repercussions have been addressed in fiction and TOOT
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may be a realistic concern in the upcoming days.
Basically Army Robot is capable of performing tasks such
as locomotion, sensing the harmful gas, sensing the humans
beneath the surface, metal detection. Army Robot is an
autonomous robot comprising of wireless camera which can
be used as a spy and Blue-tooth used to control it wireless. Fig.1 Block Diagram of Multifunctional Robot

III. HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS

This Army robot is more efficient compared to the soldiers.
Excellency of this robot is in being operated wireless from A. Micro-controller
re-
mote which offers no risk to the soldier lives. Robots are Heart of the robot is a micro-controller. Micro-controller is
enhanced to be robust and sturdier giving the guarantee of used for controlling all the operation done by the devices
success in the risk prone environment. The main aim of the which are interfaced to it. Micro-controller helps in
paper is to implement a Camouflaged technology based transmission and reception of signals to be controlled.
Wireless multifunctional Army Robot which can be AT89c52 IC is used in this micro-controller for driving the
controlled through smart phone using Blue-tooth Module robot. The IC used in this is AT89c52 has 40 pins. This IC is
having locomotion and navigates around the risk prone areas a low power consumption IC having 8K byte of Flash
and tries to identify the intruders,. In addition to this Army memory and programmable memory. It also has an on chip
Robot is built with some artificial intelligence for its safety. Flash memory used for reprogramming. Micro controller is
provided with the power supply of 5V through the power
 supply circuit. It has an additional crystal oscillator with

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clo0ck frequency of 11.59Mhz. This IC can be easily Blue-tooth module is driven by the signal given by the
interfaced. smart phone using an Android Application. This Blue-tooth
Module consists of master and slave. There is one master
B. Power supply circuit and many slaves.

The power supply circuit is the important part of any

electronic s system. Power supply circuit is used to provide G. Gas Sensor
power to the micro controller, LED Matrix, Blue-tooth
Module, sensors and DC Motor. Regulated output of +5V To analyze the toxic gases present in the environment this
& of +12V is provided by the power supply circuit. The sensor has been used. High sensitivity to LPG, propane,
three terminal of the IC 7805 provides 5V. The voltage sensitivity to smoke, Fast response and long life. It is a
from transformer is rectified and the filtered by the Simple drive circuit.
capacitor. Regulated IC has three terminals those are input
pin, output pin and ground. The unregulated DC voltage H. Metal detector
that is obtained from the capacitor is given to the input pin
of the regulated IC. To detect the metal objects,Metal proximity sensor has been
used. It will detect the object between 1cm to 7cm. On
C.PIR sensor detection of any metal object, the Led will blink and the
buzzer will be initialized. The Principle of this metal sensor
The PIR (Passive Infra-Red) Sensor is used to detect the is the inductive oscillator circuit. The inductive oscillator
changes made in the surrounding object by measuring the circuit is used to monitor the current losses in coil occurred
infrared levels made by the movement of object. The high due to the high frequency. The metal sensor is designed for
signal of the motion of object is detected on the I/O pin. detecting the metal objects by detection of the Eddy current
PIR sensor is a pyroelectric device. The PIR sensor is a losses produced by high frequency. On detecting the metal
device which generates electric charge when exposed to object,the level of the output signal changes. The level of the
infrared radiation and is made of a crystalline material. An change in supply current indicates the Output signal. Output
on-board amplifier is used to measure the changes in voltage current depends on the distance of the metal object. The
generated that is obtained by the infrared on striking the flow of current will be maximum when the object is near to
object. Fresnel Lens is a special kind of filter used in this the coil or when the object is far the current will flow less
sensor which is used to focus the infrared signal onto the through the searching coil. The detector is beneficial in
object. The motion of the object is indicated by on board many ways like the detection range is up to 7cm, Range of
amplifier on rapid change of the ambient infrared signal. operation varies according to the size of object, Power
This PIR sensor has a single bit output having small size that consumption is of 5V DC and 50mA,digital output having
makes it compatible to all micro-controllers of 3V & 5V Active with logic “0” and full SMD design.
operation with <100uA current draw.
I. DC Motor
D. Color sensor
DC motor is used to provide locomotion to the robot. It is
To analyze the color of its environment, color sensor is used. driven by the power supply circuit with 12V. DC motor used
The color sensor used provides small size, low cost, easily is compatible with the micro-controller. Force = (current) x
compatible. This color sensor is small in size and integrated (wire-length) x (magnetic field)
on a small module making wiring easy and also emits precise
information of the neutral color lighting of pure white. The J. Camera
operating principle of color sensor is simple. Photo diode is
used to generates signal after reacting with the color filter on Camera in this project is being used for the real time data
receiving light reflected by ground. The generated signal is interpretation which is wireless done using RF trans
analyzed in terms of frequencies and then gives ground receiver. It is inbuilt with the RF Module trans receiver.
color.

E. LED MATRIX IV IMPLEMENTATION

To display ground colors, 8x8 RGB LED matrix’s is being The idea of the Army Robot is based on the camouflage
used. We used one matrix with one color sensor which techniques [2]. The aim of the project is to design,
allows it to create a uniform color zone. manufacture and operate via a Smart phone, used as remote
Besides, these LED matrix’s have many benefits such as control device can reproduce the color accordingly with the
pins in 2*16 sets make it easier for wiring, their lightening ground surface where it will be moving on,hence being
quality (the robot is used for the purpose of reproducing a camouflaged to the outside world. On the one hand, in order
color rather than lightning up the environment), and a low to achieve these goals, we used a LED matrix (RGB) which
power consumption. can diffuse uniform colors, coupled to sensors that can
precisely identify ground colors. This robot is designed in
F. Blue-tooth Module such a way that it can reproduce the color independently at
various areas each area being able to reproduce color with
specific spots of the ground surface . which allow the robot

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to mock up as a checkerboard of multiple colors – the [8] Robotic Systems Joint Project Office- Unmanned Ground Systems
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Prof. Dipak Patil Received his Bachelors degree in Engineering in
path. Gas sensor and metal detector are also being used for
the field of Electronics and Telecommunications in the year 2000
sensing the toxic gases and the metal weapons if any. In this from North Maharashtra University,Jalgaon and Masters from
system we used camera to transmit the data from border to SGSITS Indore in the year 2007.He is currently working with Sandip
the official area or headquarters. In the scanning path if any Foundations ,SIEM a as a Associate Professor in the department of
Electronics & telecommunications Engineering. He is currently doing
obstacle or enemy is detected then firing starts and control his research work at the department of Applied Electronics ,at Sant
action take place. Thus in defense application it is possible Gadgebaba Amravati University,Amravati. His area of research is
to provide 24 hour security. Dynamic Spectrum Management using Cognitive Radio.

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