All terrain vehicle and automated targeting

Developers: Soumya Ranjan Tripathy, Nursingha Narayan, Jyoti Ranjan lenka, Subham Panigrahi

The use of hydrostatic transmission driveline as a part of multi-wheeled all-terrain vehicles, that provide a significant increase in average speeds of vehicle movement in difficult road conditions. The maximum possible traction force is implemented by automatic maintaining the required level of wheel slip. At the same time, the minimum energy loses of wheel soil interaction (improved fuel economy) and environmental safety of wheels, when operating on soft soil and vegetation, are provided.

ATV’s are widely utilised for conducting farm related activities, such as field ploughing, weed control, animal handling and transportation of materials. Additionally, various technological advancements, including the development of electric quad bikes and the installation of improved steering systems, hydraulic pump connections, joystick controls and graphic displays in ATVs, also contribute to the market growth.

The problem statement given to us was to design an ATV that could very well walk on sand and ice. In our project we had designed the model of the vehicle using 3D printing (that was aided by CTTC, BBSR). We designed our own software for detection of crests and troughs during the run, and had also used embedded system technologies for smooth transitioning of the vehicle. We use ultrasonic sensors for sensing the inaccuracies and the actual path of the vehicle. The use of a mini-camera came to a boon for us, for we could get real time images of the path that we traversed.

Achievements :

DRDO financed our project for the year 2018.