Abstract— At parking zones of public places, government offices,

malls, etc. cars were checked by the guard for security purpose

with the help of metal rod along with mirror pan. Using this

method under vehicle surveillance is not possible properly.

Another way to carry out this inspection by using three to four

cameras fixed under the hard steel and when the vehicle will pass

over this arrangement at a particular limited speed, so that

underneath of the vehicle can be inspected. But this will be costly.

So, came up with this project. This project consists of wireless

robotic vehicle wireless camera mounted on it whose video output

is viewed on the computer. The wireless robotic vehicle on which

wireless camera is mounted can be controlled from the computer

using graphical user interface application. This robotic vehicle

can be moved under the vehicle and thus the inspection of the

underside of that vehicle can be taken place.

This project can be implemented for security purposes in

government offices, parking lots, etc.

Index Terms— Under Vehicle Surveillance system (UVSS),

Graphical User Interface (GUI), etc

I. INTRODUCTION

ith national security raised to a major problem in our

lives, the research on under vehicle inspection has

drawn more attention than before. Underside of the

vehicles was checked by guard using mirror pan. But proper

surveillance is not possible with this method. Another way to

carry our this inspection by using three to four cameras fixed

under the hard steel and when the vehicle will pass over this

arrangement at a particular limited speed, so that underneath

of the vehicle can be inspected. But this will be costly. So here

we come with our project. This Consists of a robotic vehicle,

on which a camera is mounted, which can be operated from

remote location. So this vehicle would go under the vehicle of

which inspection to be done and the underside of that vehicle can be viewed on the screen of the computer. As robotic

vehicle move underneath the vehicle it will allow us to see

area which is hard to view. Thus the inspection can be done

properly.

This project can be decomposed into three main parts as

building a robotic vehicle, developing a GUI on the computer

screen from which this vehicle can be operated and the

communication between the vehicle and the computer. Here,

both the serial and wireless communication are used. Serial

communication is used for the transmission data between GUI

and RF transmitter whereas wireless communication is used

between robotic vehicle and RF transmitter.

A robotic vehicle can be build on chassis on which a camera

can be mounted which can also be moved in certain directions

like the vehicle to get the better view.

This project will help to improve the security at the places

such as public places, shopping malls, government offices, border crossings, airports etc.

The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section

II gives the idea about related previous work. Section III gives

the system description in which introduction to the major

requirements of this project are specified. Section IV gives the

design steps for developing the system while working of the

project is given in section V. In section VI we draw some

conclusion.

II. LITERATURE REVIEW

Criminals and terrorists have been known to carry

explosives and drugs and other form of goods in the

undercarriage of the vehicle. The word „under-carriage‟ means

the underside of the vehicle. The term vehicle includes at least

automobiles, vans, small trucks, large trucks, etc. Inspection

stations have been set up in a variety of locations to prevent

passage of forbidden items hidden in the undercarriage of the

vehicles. For example international and state borders, airports,

military and security check points and even many commercial

structures are protected by system designed to inspect vehicle

undercarriages.

Perhaps the most common inspection method used to

perform undercarriage inspection involves a human inspector

manipulating a mirror attached to the end of a stick. The inspector manually positions a mirror underneath a vehicle in

such a way that he or she can view portions of vehicle‟s

underside in the mirror‟s reflection. This allows the inspector

vehicle‟s underside without having to kneel down or crawl

underneath the vehicle.

The so called mirror and stick approach has a number of

fairly obvious shortcomings. Most obviously this approach

puts the inspector in physical danger by placing him or her

near potentially dangerous harmful substances e.g. explosives,

caustic chemicals biological weapons, etc. Furthermore

scanning the entire underside of the vehicle using mirror on

stick takes a considerable amount of time which may lead to

serious congestion of traffic at certain places of high traffic

areas. More ever human inspection fails to notice important

details when they are fatigued or in rush, thereby limiting the

reliability of their inspection.

A number of more sophisticated approaches have been

proposed in an attempt to provide safer, more efficient and more reliable ways of inspecting vehicle undercarriages. This

approach includes stationary under vehicle inspection devices

and unmanned robotic vehicle. Conventional stationary under

vehicle inspection devices are characterized by the use of

Under Vehicle Surveillance System

Sudarshan B. Divekar

M.Tech.(Electronics)

Department of Electrical Engg.

Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Matunga, Mumbai sudarshand42@gmail.com

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fixed cameras that image some portion of vehicle‟s

undercarriage as the vehicle is driven over the device. A

typical stationary under vehicle inspection device comprises a

camera strip that captures a number of images of the vehicle‟s

underside and then sends images to human inspector for

analysis.

III. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

The system in major have following requirements.

1) Microcontroller p89v51rd2

2) Wireless camera

3) Wireless interface

4) GUI control

1) Microcontroller p89v51rd2:

The present paper aim to illustrate a notable application using

a microcontroller 8051

2) Wireless camera:

Mini wireless security set for quick and easy amateur

surveillance, with an included long range wireless receiver and

a super small 1/3 inch CMOS wireless camera with both audio

and video capturing. The mini cam features good low light

gathering 3LUX as well as a wide angle 4mm lens and the

ability to be powered either from a wall socket or from a

standard 9V battery with the included adapters, and the

receiver can be used not only with the included camera, but

using the channel tuning, with most wireless cameras

transmitting on the 1.2GHz spectrum.

3) Graphical User Interface:

The GUI is used to control the Robotic Vehicle for navigation

i.e. left, right, forward and backward. This will be built using MATLAB. After that, we will click on START Button due to

which the other buttons of navigation become active and the

label of START button changes to STOP.

4) Wireless Interface:

The STT-433 is ideal for remote control applications

where low cost and longer range is required. The transmitter

operates from a 1.5 -12V supply, making it ideal for battery-

powered applications. The transmitter employs a SAW-

stabilized oscillator, ensuring accurate frequency control for

best range performance. Output power and harmonic

emissions are easy to control, making FCC and ETSI

compliance easy. The manufacturing-friendly SIP style

package and low-cost make the STT-433 suitable for high

volume applications

IV. DESIGN STEPS

Following are the steps to be followed in order to

accomplish our project.

1. Building of robotic vehicle 2. Mounting of camera transmitter and RF receiver

on the robotic vehicle

3. Developing GUI from where the robot and camera has to be operated

4. Attaching RF transmitter at the computer end via

microcontroller from which communication between robotic vehicle and GUI will take place smoothly.

Block diagram of the complete system is given in figure

1. First block shows the arrangement at the PC end i.e. the

transmitter end, while the later shows at the receiver end i.e.

at the robotic vehicle end. At the PC end, wireless

transmitter is connected to the PC via microcontroller and

also the camera receiver to observe the output of camera on

PC. While at the robotic vehicle end, wireless receiver is

connected to the microcontroller, also the camera is

mounted on the vehicle whose receiver is connected to the

PC end.

Figure 2 shows the GUI from which we are to control the robotic vehicle.

Figure 1: Block Diagram at PC

end and at the robotic vehicle end

V. WORKING

Working consists of work done together by hardware and

software.

Hardware: The working by this group can be defined in

following sections

1) Signals for the movement of robotic vehicle are

generated by GUI in MATLAB. These signals are

generated as per our requirements using GUI. Then these

signals are transferred to microcontroller using serial

connection and from microcontroller to the robotic vehicle

by wireless transmitter. This wireless transmitter provides

proper modulation so that signals will be carried to the

robotic vehicle.

2) At the robotic vehicle end there is receiver which

demodulates the signals in order to get the information that

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has been sent. These signals act as source for the robotic

vehicle to move

Software: Here we have to use two different tools. First one

is for the robotic vehicle movement and the other for GUI.

1) For the robotic vehicle movement, we have to program

microcontroller. We‟ll use Keil to compile our program

and this will also give hex code to burn into

microcontroller. The hex code can be burnt to the

microcontroller using flashmagic.

2) For GUI we can use Visual Basic as well as MATLAB,

but here we‟ll use MATLAB to create GUI. GUI may

look like as in figure 2.

So finally we can take our robotic vehicle to inspect

the undercarriage of the vehicle using GUI and hence

under vehicle can be taken place.

figure 2: GUI using MATLAB

VI. CONCLUSION

This paper shows one of the notable application of

microcontroller 8051, which explains about how can we inspect the undercarriage of a vehicle. This can give us low

cost under vehicle surveillance system, which can be used in

the parking lots of malls, government offices, etc.

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