Novel Design for a Semi-Autonomous Combat Robot with Extension Capability

Teleoperated mobile robotic systems are remotely operated vehicles designed to perform tasks in coordination with human operators. However, teleoperation can be realistically enhanced by a level of automation removing challenges such as constant monitoring. The aim of this paper is to develop a behavior based control paradigm for the control of such a teleoperated semi-autonomous robot whose mission goals can be loosely specified. Compatibility of design with commercially available reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulators increases the span of the goal specification. Different parts of the robotic system; sensors, hardware, control interface, mapping and localization are also introduced throughout the paper.