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Arduino controlled war field spy robot using night vision wireless camera and
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2015 5th Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE)

Arduino Controlled War Field Spy Robot using

Night Vision Wireless Camera and Android
Application
Jignesh Patoliya1, Haard Mehta2, Hitesh Patel3
1,2,3
V. T. Patel Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Charotar University of Science and Technology, Changa, Anand, Gujarat: 388421, India

jigneshpatoliya@charusat.ac.in1 ,haardmehta@yahoo.com2,hiteshpatel.ec@charusat.ac.in3

Abstract— The main objective behind developing this robot is laser beam light and Bomb disposal Kit inbuilt was sent inside
for the surveillance of human activities in the war field or border a dark room before the military commanders in order to
regions in order to reduce infiltrations from the enemy side. The reduce the risk of losing human life. It was so far considered
robot consists of night vision wireless camera which can transmit as the best police operation carried out by New South Wales
videos of the war field in order to prevent any damage and loss to police department with the use of latest technology resulting is
human life. Military people have a huge risk on their lives while less loss of human life.
entering an unknown territory. The robot will serve as an
appropriate machine for the defense sector to reduce the loss of
human life and will also prevent illegal activities. It will help all
the military people and armed forces to know the condition of the
territory before entering it.

Keywords — Robot, Night Vision, Bluetooth Module, Android.

I. INTRODUCTION
The advent of technology has brought a revolutionary
change in the field of robotics and automation which ranges in
all the sectors from household domestic works to the defense
sector. Today in the global market, smart phones also have
brought a revolution in changing people’s lifestyle and
providing numerous applications on different operating
systems. Android operating system is one of these systems
build on open source which has made a huge impact providing
many applications for robotics to help people in their day to
day life. [1]
Fig.1 The sydney siege robot [8]
The main technology used here for serial communication
with the robot is the bluetooth technology. Bluetooth
technology can be used to share data between two devices II. LITERATURE SURVEY
considering the range between two devices. The bluetooth The literature survey includes the architecture of bluetooth
module HC-05 will be connected with the robot and the module HC-05 along with L293D motor driver IC.
commands to the robot will be given through the android
application. [1] A. Bluetooth Module HC-05 [6, 7]
The war field robot consists of arduino uno board as a
controller board. It has L293D motor driver IC’s along with a The bluetooth module HC-05 consists of six pins. The six
pins are Key,5V,GND,Tx,Rx,Status. The bluetooth module
HC-05 bluetooth module. Two DC motors are also used for
has two devices i) master device ii) slave device. One device
the motion of the robot. The night vision wireless camera is
connects to the master while the other device connects to the
attached with the robot in order to monitor the situation and
slave. The connection between the devices takes place as
the camera can be rotated 360 degrees via the android
follows:
application through motor.
The sydney siege is considered one of the historic moment • One of the pin Tx is connected to pin Rx of the
in the field of automation and robotics where a robot with a arduino board while the pin Rx of bluetooth module

978-1-4799-9991-0/15/$31.00 ©2015 IEEE

 is connected to the Tx pin of arduino. Thus, in a way
cross-connection is required for the operation of
bluetooth module. The GND pin is given to the GND
pin of arduino and power supply pin of arduino is
given to the pin of power.
• In order to have proper communication, the master
device must be connected to the slave. Once the
pairing is done between two devices, the device will
ask to enter the password.
• The password will be either 0000 or 1234. Enter the
password and both the devices will be connected to
each other.[3]
Fig.2 HC-05 Bluetooth Module [9]
B. L293D Motor Driver IC
• The L293 and L293D are quadruple high-current
half-H drivers.
Fig.3 L293D Datasheet [9]
• The L293 IS designed to provide bidirectional drive
currents of up to 1A at voltage from 4.5V to 36V.
• The L293D is designed to provide bidirectional drive
currents of up to 600-mA at voltages from 4.5V to
36V.
• The L293D IC has sixteen pins. There are four input
pins and four ground pins. Two motors are connected
between the four output pins.[3]
III. HARDWARE DESIGN
The hardware design consists of the mainly three sections.
A. Bluetooth Connection with Arduino:
The bluetooth module HC-05 is connected with arduino
board with Rx and Tx pins connected with the Tx and Rx pins
of arduino board i.e. Cross –Connection. [2,4]
Fig.4 Bluetooth connection with arduino
B. Motor Interfacing
The DC motors are connected with the L293D IC through
pins 3 and 6 and other motor through pins 11 and 14. The
input pins are connected with the arduino board. The Figure
shown below is the Proteus implementation of connection of
arduino with L923D along with the motor interfacing for
driving the robot.
 Fig.5 Motor- Arduino interfacing. Fig.7 War Field Robot with Wireless Night vision Camera.

C. Night Vision Wireless Camera IV. ANDROID APPLICATION

Millions of users are using android applications today.

MIT app inventor is one of the forum which has provided
millions of creators and inventors the opportunity to design
their own android application. The following are the
procedures and steps to create the android application.

A. Procedure and Steps for Android Application

• Select the ai2.appinventor.mit.edu website and create

an account on it.
• There are two sections i) Designer ii) Blocks.
• First step is to select the Horizontal arrangement
from the Layout option.
• Select the block of List Picker and Upload Image in
Fig.6 Nightvision wireless camera [11] that from the properties Section. The List Picker will
help to pick the required Bluetooth connection from
Features of Wireless Camera:[11] the List.
• Now to design the Remote Control,Select the Button
• Automatic Motion detection features. option.

• Minimum 100 meters transmission distance without
block.
• Imaging Sensor 1/3 Inch-CMOS.
• CMOS Total Pixels:628*582(PAL)/510*492(NTSC).
• Minimum Illumination:1.5 lux
• View angle:62 Degree
• Camera Head weight: 15 gm.
• Select the Tabular Arrangement and then one by one
place five buttons which will act as forward, reverse,
right, left and stop buttons.
• A slider is placed at the bottom to control the speed
of the robot
• Select Bluetooth Client from the block Connectivity.
• Select the Clock option also.
• Create two more buttons for rotating the camera left
or right.
• Next step is the blocks designing.
• Block designing consists of connecting programmed
blocks with each other. Some figures below will
describe the block programming.

• Select the block of listpicker before picking and

adjust the block of bluetooth client. Next select the
listpicker after picking option.

• Select the block of clock and adjust the bluetooth

client block with it. Select the connected option from
the different options given like control, Math
etc.[5,10]

Fig.8 Android Application in Smartphone

Fig.6 Block Programming [10]

Fig.9 Bluetooth List Selection

Fig 7 Android Application Design [10]

 V. APPLICATIONS [11] Conference on. IEEE, 2011.
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Sydney_hostage_crisis-The
Sydney Siege
• Military operations. [9] "HC-05 Bluetooth Module,Arduino-Bluetooth Interfacing"-
• Surveillance along border. www.engineersgarage.com.
• Search and Rescue Operation. [10] "MIT AppInventor"- www.appinventor.mit.edu.
[11] Night Vision Wireless Camera’-
• Maneuvering in hazardous environment.
www.slideshare.net/abhilashkotawar/war-field-spying-robot-with-
night-v.
VI. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT

The robot can be made more miniature in size. One of the

limitations of this robot is the range of the robot. The
bluetooth module used here has a limited range and thus this
robot cannot be operated over far distances. To increase the
range many other modules such as Wi-Fi and Zigbee can be
used.

In future, the robot may also consist of gas sensors to

detect the poisonous gases in the environment. The robot may
also include a bomb disposal kit in order to diffuse bombs in
the war field.

VII. CONCLUSION

In this paper, the model of robot can be described to build

a robot using night vision wireless camera run by android
application and the people can learn about developing android
application in order to control the robot through wireless
application using the platform of MIT app inventor.

The robot can be made more enhanced by adding features

like gas sensors and bomb defuse kit.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors convey their gratitude to the department and

university for providing the resources along with the
appropriate equipments ,which were necessary for completing
this research paper.

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