An Autonomous Robotic Vehicle (ARV) is designed as an automotive system that takes its own decision of Speed transition and Obstacle detection while driving itself from a source to a destination without human guidance. It is considered that the path is single-coloured and the obstacle on path is steady. ARV involves concepts of Sensors, Image Processing, Control Systems, Robotics, Engineering Mechanics and Electric Drives. The main objective for an ARV is to drive from a Source to Destination through a straight, single-coloured path having specific width, length and steady obstacles. ARV is supposed to have the mentioned capabilities: 

1. Obstacle Detection and Avoidance 

2. Intelligent Speed Control System (ISCS) 

ISCS monitors the speed of ARV continuously according to the situation of obstacles. It increases the speed of ARV to its maximum till no obstacle is detected and reduces the speed at the detection to zero for stopping it and taking the avoidance decision.

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