I have a unusual project atm where I need to design a ROV (remote operated viechle) to operate inside a nuclear facility to scan and such.
The robot will be operating by remote and am assuming that the walls are effectively lead, the robot has to be wireless and there is only a 10 inch hole going about a meter in thickness at most
Lets just say this is a large chamber!!!
Anyone got any good communication ideas?
Am going to be using Arduino's of course
I had an idea of using another none wireless robot to shoat commands to it from the edge of the inner hole with powerful Xbees but am thinking there might be better ways that I havent thought of.
Al be Exhibition the project when am finished to show and tell
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong place! wasnt clear
This is not usually the case with nuclear installations they are usually concrete. However, the reinforcement in the concrete might form an effective Faraday cage so you will get no radio through it anyway. Your best bet is to use radio and make sure the antenna is pushed all the way through the hole.
huh huh... he said "fart-fetched" - sorry Beavis moment.
And yet it isn't "fart-fetched". I like the idea of dropping nodes. I'm assuming this is a theoretical design, so we can be creative here. Dropping some XBee nodes would be great, especially if you can work in the mesh network concept. Essentially, you could have a LOS (line of sight) transmitter to the vehicle to enter the facility, drop a master node (or two, for redundancy, if needed) just inside the entrance to the LOS transmitter, then start dropping comm nodes as needed. Think of a water fountain cup dispenser for the nodes at the rear of the vehicle.
