Mobile Robot for Gamma Radiation Detection with Long Range Remote Control

Abstract

The technological development of the improvement to a mobile robot prototype detector of gamma radiation is shown. The mobile robot has been tested in two configurations, (wheel differential configuration with two side traction wheels and another configuration with four drive wheels). This platform for its small size (drive wheels 11 cm in diameter) and it can be applied in laboratory to test algorithms for radiological surveillance and radiological monitoring of radioactive exposure sources. The system includes a remote control up to 1Km, a vision system FPV, and a Human Machine Interface (HMI), which has been developed in LabView. The parameters shown are: radiation count rate in counts per second, geographic location data of the robot by GPS (latitude, longitude, and altitude), vehicle orientation angles (Roll, Pitch, Yaw), date, hour, minute and seconds of a real time clock, aerial image of the area where the robot is going by using Google Earth.