Coimbatore college students develop robotic vehicle

Three engineering students of a city college today claimed to have developed a multipurpose unmanned robotic vehicle which they believe would be useful for ISRO, in exploring the lunar surface in the next unmanned moon mission, besides Army and police in various activities.

The vehicle, which uses artificial intelligence with digital image processing sans any sensors, would do multi-various activities like car chasing, reading book and driving, the students of the Government College of Technology told reporters after a demonstration.

Ranganathan, S R Anantha Krishnan and S Rajesh Kannan, who developed the vehicle, said it was designed to ply on the road automatically and detect both moving and stationary objects such as other vehicles and human beings.

Since the vehicle fitted with a camera can also be controlled through wireless transmitter, it can be added to ISRO-2012 space programme for exploring moon, they said.