ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the introduction of the components and their roles in the system of autonomous rovers. It focuses on electrical, mechanical, and control characteristics and their capabilities in the system of autonomous rovers. The system of autonomous rovers comprises four components: base robot, swarm robots, sensors and a threat. The haptically teleoperated base robot plays an important role in the presented system of systems (SoS). The base robot provides onboard computational power, an advanced suite of sensors, and tracked locomotion for all-terrain navigation. The mobile platform developed in this work is an open-architecture articulated-track rover. The sensor networks also utilize a centralized controller physically present within the base robot’s onboard PC. The chapter presents another set of robots in a similar application with a different hardware and software architecture. The common communication medium can be achieved in hardware and/or software architecture of the communication modules of each system in the SoS.
