The main idea to develop an Automated Guided Vehicle for this project stems
from its various needs and applications. Some of the applications that motivated us are:
1. Applications in rescues for places that are dangerous for humans to reach or
too difficult to reach. Such dilemmas and tragedies are heard about around the
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world and Saudi Arabia is not an exception. We had many sad stories and
situations that ended up with lost lives of individuals who were trapped in
caves or fell in water wells. One of these stories happened not long ago, in the
past 4 months, where a small kid not over the age of seven fell in a small and
deep water well and there was not any possibility for a rescue team to do
anything. The girl ended up losing her life and the retrieval of the body is still
on-going [6]. In a recent workshop “Hazards of Drilled Wells: Challenges and
Solutions”, the director general of the Civil Defense of Saudi Arabia called for
a plan to build robots that will aid officers in rescuing people who fall into
wells [7].