Application of Wireless Visual Sensor for Semi- Autonomous Mine Navigation System

The present paper represent the efforts undertaken for the development of an semi-automatic robot that may be used for various post-disaster rescue operation planning and their subsequent execution using one-way communication of video and data from the robot to the controller and controller to the robot respectively. Wireless communication has been used for the purpose so that the robot may access the unapproachable places easily without any difficulties. It is expected that the information obtained from the robot would be of definite help to the rescue team for better planning and execution of their operations.

Authors:

• Vinay Kumar Pilania
• Debashish Chakravarty

Keywords:

• Mine environment
• mine navigation
• mine rescue robot
• video data transmission.

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