Ministry of Home Affairs: Autonomous Ground Robot Deployment
Autonomous ground robot that works without GPS, deployed for the Singapore Police Force at Chingay 2018 and on confidential security operations.
Deployed the Rover S5 autonomous ground robot for Singapore Police Force operations at Chingay 2018. It also served in other confidential security deployments for the Ministry of Home Affairs. The unmanned ground vehicle's guidance system was built for use on and off road. Its autonomous navigation works reliably even when there is no GPS signal. That matters in dense urban areas and at security-sensitive sites, where satellite positioning cannot be relied on.
The Ministry of Home Affairs needed an autonomous ground robot for Singapore Police Force operations. One was a major national event, Chingay 2018. The others were confidential security deployments. In these settings the GPS signal is often weak or missing, and route integrity still has to be assured.
Deployed the Rover S5 unmanned ground vehicle, with a guidance system built for on-road and off-road use. Built the autonomous navigation control system to keep route integrity with no GPS. It uses other positioning and obstacle-awareness methods suited to dense event crowds and security-sensitive sites.
Rover S5 supported Singapore Police Force operations at Chingay 2018 and other confidential deployments. Its GPS-denied navigation gave assurance of route integrity that a GPS-only system could not have guaranteed in that setting.
- My role
- Deployed the robot and built its navigation control system, Orion Five Engineering
Robots deployed for national security operations have to work when the easy signal (GPS) is not available. Any business should hold its automation to the same standard. Design for the moment your main data source fails. A system that only works in ideal conditions is a demo, not a deployment.
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Deploying Rover S5 for police operations at Chingay meant designing for the one condition that matters in a dense event crowd. GPS drops out, and the robot still has to know where it is. There's no room to say 'it usually works' when the deployment covers a national event and confidential security operations. We couldn't fully simulate that setting beforehand. Getting the navigation to hold route integrity there without satellite positioning is the kind of engineering I find satisfying to get right.
