Mobile Robot For Military Applications:Design & Control

Will robots change our life in the future? With a small overview on our life nowadays we can conclude they have already been changing it for many years. One of the most fascinating features of robots is the ability to think which was introduced in science fiction by Karel Capek in his Czech science fiction play who was the first one to use the word ¿robot¿. The relationship between robots and military is sharply growing up as we have realized the role of robots in doing the dangerous and sophisticated missions instead of putting the life of soldiers under risk. In our project we have built a mobile-tank system with a laser pointer mounted on a gun which we called it ¿ALMA¿.ALMA is controlled remotely using MATLAB Simulink software operating system. The control operation is done by a Fuzzy tuned PID controller with a video processing based feedback.