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Hello there,

Today it was the lunching of the Bombs Sweeper Robot, a senior project of 2 students at the American University of Science & Technology - Beirut - Lebanon.

It was made by Mr. Rami Sourani & Mr. Wissam Yammout.

The goal from this robot is to go pickup a suspected bombs, or wondend persons from a dangerous places, and takes them back to the safe place.

The project started last year, where the 2 students were working days and night to achive their final goal. As i have entred AUST this semester i was able to catch up more info, and have a regular visits to their workshop.

Below a review that will explain lots of point about the machine:

The machine will be controled wirelessly using 2 Linksys wirless G access points, attached on 2 different portables one on the machine, and another as the controler.

A special designed software made by them using VB, i have no more details about the software, this will control the machine from controler protable, where also the user can also watch the movement of the arm of the robot and his front road, using 2 logitec camera emplented on the robot's front & arm, supplied with 2 lights for each.

The mainly used the PIC Microchip Technology to translate computer commands into physical movement.

More info Here.

The Robot Specs:

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[*]An avarage operating time of one hour without arm movement

[*]Wireless Operation in noiseless medium is around 100m, in optimal conditions it can reach up to 500m.

[*]Driven with batteries supplied DC motor, two 12v / 100 Ah dry batteries.

[*]5 hours of charging needed, and need to be charged continuously, eve if the robot was not used.

[*]The control system has seperate 12v dry battery that needs to be recharged as well.

[*]The robot ars has six degrees of freedom.

[*]Motion of the arm is possible when the tank is stationary.

[*]30 minutes of opration during tank is stationary.

[*]It can move and carry objects up to 75KG in weight.

[*]Two cameras are installed  one at the end of the robotic arm and another on the body.

[*]One light for each cam.

[*]It can be controled from up to 100m using network cable.

[*]It's not water proof.

To check all the detailed photos goHere. As i can't upload them all here.

but here's a sample



Regards

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Originally posted by zaher1988
A special designed software made by them using VB

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Visual Basic? WTF? Can they not program or something?

No offence intended to serious VB programmers: I'm just so much more a C/C++ person.