Design of Control System for EOD Robot Based on Embedded Linux

The explosive ordnance disposal robot (EOD robot), refers to the robot which can conduct reconnaissance, disposal and handling of the explosives at the scene of the accident as a substitute under the circumstances which are not allowed or suitable for human’s appearance; it can also attack terrorists effectively. It is important to improve the power of antiterrorism and to safeguard the state development of politics and economy. We introduce the implementation of control system based on the ARM9 microprocessor S3C2410 for our EOD robot in this paper. According to the robot’s hardware design, embedded Linux operating system is selected as the platform of the software development. The embedded control system can achieve many tasks of the robot, such as motion control, suspicious objects searching, explosive ordnance disposal, communication with the remote control system and executing complex control algorithms.