Design and Implementation of an Unmanned Vehicle using a GSM Network without Microcontrollers

TL;DR

This paper presents a microcontroller-free wireless vehicle control system using GSM and DTMF, simplifying circuit design and reducing development effort while maintaining accuracy and usability.

Contribution

It introduces a novel control circuit for unmanned vehicles that eliminates microcontrollers, leveraging GSM and DTMF for reliable wireless operation.

Findings

Reduced circuit complexity and manpower requirements.

Achieved accurate and user-friendly vehicle control.

Demonstrated practical feasibility of microcontroller-free design.

Abstract

In the recent past, wireless controlled vehicles had been extensively used in a lot of areas like unmanned rescue missions, military usage for unmanned combat and many others. But the major disadvantage of these wireless unmanned robots is that they typically make use of RF circuits for maneuver and control. Essentially RF circuits suffer from a lot of drawbacks such as limited frequency range i.e. working range, and limited control. To overcome such problems associated with RF control, few papers have been written, describing methods which make use of the GSM network and the DTMF function of a cell phone to control the robotic vehicle. This paper although uses the same principle technology of the GSM network and the DTMF based mobile phone but it essentially shows the construction of a circuit using only 4 bits of wireless data communication to control the motion of the vehicle without the use of any microcontroller. This improvement results in considerable reduction of circuit complexity and of manpower for software development as the circuit built using this system does not require any form of programming. Moreover, practical results obtained showed an appreciable degree of accuracy of the system and friendliness without the use of any microcontroller.