Autonomous System Design for Dam Surveillance Robots

Dams are important engineering facilities in water conservancy industry. They have many functions, such as flood control, electric power generation, irrigation, water supply, shipping, etc. Therefore, their own long-term safety is crucial to operation stability. Because of the complexity of the dam environment, robots with kinds of sensors are a good choice to replace humans to perform surveillance job. In this paper, an autonomous system design is proposed for dam surveillance robots, which includes general solution, electromechanical layout, sensors scheme and navigation method. By connecting the automatic robot, the cloud server and the users with IOT technology, the proposed solution could be more robust and practical.