SBIR-STTR Award

Teleremote control of a USME or other conventional vehicle can be simplified through the use of a standardized kit for teleremote control. This standardized kit requires actuators, linkages control electronics, vehicle driving sensors, provision for generic payloads and sensors, and a communications link to a portable control unit. Omnitech Robotics, Inc. is proposing to design an innovative, flexible, and low cost solution to such a standardized teleremote kit for USMC vehicles under the proposed phase I activity.

A standardized teleremote control kit for converting a variety of USMC and other vehicles was designed in phase I. The phase II effort is focused on developing the teleremote kit, and integrating it with two USMC vehicles for operational testing. This standardized teleremote kit offers significantly improved flexibility, performance, scaleability and cost effectiveness through the use of several innovative new approaches including high integration actuators, scaleable serial I/O and actuator busses, and modern open system architecture design methodologies. The kit provides a comprehensive teleremote conversion capability, and preliminary applications engineering was conducted for applying the standardized teleremote kit to a variety of engineering vehicles for mine breaching applications.

Keywords:
TELEREMOTE TELEOPERATED ROBOTIC ACTUATOR REMOTE CONTROL UGV CONTROL