Optimum Path Generator

Abstract

To study/observe a given terrain, it is imminent to have a map of that environment. There may arise a need to study of a place having no previous geographical data or such a place is unreachable for a human being. Such cases can be seen in survey of an environment, tunnel system and military operation. We have made a compact size robot namely OPG Bot that can solve this issue and provide a 2-D map of the environment to be used for different purposes. The main technique we used is Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to plot a virtual map of the environment. We used ultrasonic readings for the map generation at backend system and adruino based hardware at the robot side. Different terrains were used to train the system. On the basis of the results, we refine the rules and finalize them. Then we calculated accuracy and efficiency of the designed system. In this thesis we explained all the steps and technicalities of our system with detailed explanation.