Research
Title : | Development of Lizard-like Robotic Spy Surveillance System |
Area of research : | Engineering Sciences |
Focus area : | Science & Engineering Research Board - Impacting Research Innovation & Technology, IMPRINT-2 |
Principal Investigator : | Dr. R. Halder, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (Patna), Bihar |
Timeline Start Year : | 2019 |
Timeline End Year : | 2022 |
Contact info : | halder@iitp.ac.in ; athakur@iitp.ac.in ; gourinath@iiti.ac.in ; rajarshi.ray@iacs.res.in |
Details
Executive Summary : | Terrorists often choose hostage-like activities, taking its full advantage to negotiate with security forces and/or with governments. Lack of proper information about the crisis scene, such as terrorists’ number, position, etc., in such emergency situation is a hindrance for security forces to take appropriate actions and to combat terrorism. A minor mistake by them may claim many innocents’ lives. The main objective of this project is to develop a robotic swarm surveillance system to facilitate security forces accessing real-time crisis scene information while maintaining stealth. The system will comprise of a swarm of lizard-like robots. The lizard-like structure of the robots will ensure stealth while enabling locomotion on the ceilings and walls at the crisis scene. The robots will possess onboard computational resources, which along with computationally powerful remote server deployed in the control unit will be organized in client-server architecture. The onboard computers of the robots will perform relatively lighter computation such as data acquisition, preprocessing, and its secure communication to the server, whereas the server will be responsible for heavy computation including crisis site intelligence extraction, robot swarm formation control and motion planning of individual robot. The key components of the overall system are: In particular, the development of such critical system involves many research challenges, including: |
Co-PI: | Dr Atul Thakur, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, Dr Gourinath Banda, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Dr Rajarshi Ray, Assistant Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, Dr Ansuman Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad |
Total Budget (INR): | 1,01,49,858 |
Achievements : | A detailed design of the robot prototype having six degrees of freedom consisting of CAD models for the robot structure and electronics and sensor placement has been developed. Also, a detailed fabrication plan employing a combination of 3D printing and laser cutting has been developed so that the robot prototype can be replicated easily. At this initial stage, the driving mechanism of the prototype follows four-bar mechanism. |
Publications : | 1 |
Organizations involved
Implementing Agency : | Indian Institute of Technology (Patna), Bihar |
Funding Agency : | Department of Science and Technology, (DST) Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt of India |
Source (more info) : | https://serb.gov.in/ |