The ROVER : An Undergrad Mechanical Engineering Project

The ROVER
Remotely Operated Vehicle for Extraction and Reconnaissance
This video demonstrates the gripping capability of the ROVER. For a demonstration of another angle of grip please view http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE0RmAurY-M

The video is 2x the normal speed. Please pardon the background voices.

This is a vehicle built to traverse rough terrain and retrieve & relocate hazardous objects. It is remotely operated at 433MHz and has a 3 jaw gripper system connected with a 3 linkage Arm assembly. With this design, the ROVER can grasp objects in a multitude of angles around it.

The ROVER has a maximum/minimum gripping radius of 80mm/10mm and reach to heights of 60 cm. It has 50 feet wireless transmission range. A wireless CCTV camera is also included for remote surveillance and control of the vehicle. The Vehicle uses differential drive mechanism in a Track/Belt driven system for its movement.

Although the 3 jaw system is best suited of completely round or near-round geometrical shapes, this gripper can also grasp square objects if approached from a correct angle. This will be demonstrated in the other videos.
This is an undergraduate project done by us at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology with limited local resources. It has many scopes of further development.

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[devdeng]

Wow..amazing!!

How long u took to build it?

[TECranKpin]

@devdeng thanx for your appreciation!

the whole project took me about 3 months including time for first draft design, electrical circuitry and collection & machining of the parts needed. This was our very first project so it took a bit longer time than expected and we had to troubleshoot and change minor flaws in design on the fly. It still had problems but was a functional prototype.

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@secondmessi

Umm....we dont have specialized shops for these in Bangladesh, so we had to get this from a scrapyard like market here....

[saberfb89]

amazing work for a UG . do you like to share the construction . please man ,let it out (open source ) , others get benefited .