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Abstract-In today's world, science and technology is breaking the limits and proceeding towards the autonomous mechanism, in which the Artificial Intelligence is fueling the scenario and stretching its legs in almost every field of life. After looking into this phenomenon, a system is needed which can help us on roads too, for going to the sensitive areas where sending a human is a life threatening risk. So, some autonomous vehicle would be needed which can serve in those conditions by working for mankind and taking the decisions at its own to get the job done which was specified to it earlier.
This paper is based on making such kind of ground vehicle which can serve us by going to the remote places at its own avoiding the obstacles in the route, and making it decisions according to the conditions with the help of the Artificial Intelligence provided to it. The major applications for AGV are in defense related areas or cargo controlling system.
Index Terms- Autonomous Vehicles, Bipolar Transistor switches, DC Motor drives, PWM, Image Object detection, Microcontrollers.
I. INTRODUCTION
Implementation of an Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) is a step towards making a ground vehicle that can work at its own, which can make decisions and do the tasks which we require from it to be done. It would be a vehicle which can process the data in real time and take the respective decisions on the basis of that processed data. The paper is based on integration of different hardware and software modules and their interaction to produce an efficient outcome.
The concept of autonomous vehicles begins in 1977 with the Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Lab in Japan. The vehicle, at that time achieved the speed of up to 30 km/h by following white markers on a clearly marked course.
In the decade of 80s, a vision guided robot was made by Mercedes-Benz, headed by the team of Ernst Dickmanns at the Universität der Bundeswehr in Germany [1], which achieved the speed of 100 km/h.
In 1994, the robot vehicles, named Vita-2 and VaMP of Ernst Dickmanns [2] and Daimler-Benz of UniBwM drove the vehicles more than one thousand kilometers on a highway in standard heavy traffic at speeds up to 130 km/h,...