Development of Autonomous Master-and-Slave Vehicles with Cruise Technology

The object of this study is to develop a group of master-and-slave vehicles with the realization of group control and cruise technology. The main feature is to design one large master-vehicle, and two small slave-vehicles. The master vehicle can carry the slave vehicles to perform the security patrol in grouping mode. When executing the security patrol, central monitoring system will command the master vehicle with slave vehicles moving to the corridor of patrolled floor in building. Furthermore, the slave vehicles will be putted down from the master vehicle and autonomously cruise everywhere of patrolled floor. After the cruising of slave vehicles, the master vehicle will carry these slave vehicles to the next place and continue patrolling task. Once multiple vehicles work simultaneously, the efficiency of security patrol will be significantly improved. The experimental results indicate that the designed master-and-slave vehicles have successfully completed the mission of autonomous cruising. Consequently, the proposed development is available in the application of security.