WEEK 1 : Principles and Practices

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WEEK 1 : Principles and Practices



ASSIGNMENT

  • Build a personal site describing you and your final project.
  • Plan and sketch a potential semester project and add it to your website.
  • Upload it to the class archive.

    • Project Idea and Rough Sketch

  • SEARCH AND RESCUE ROBOT

  • Reason to change

  • Bluetooth controlled DC motor Car with IR sensor

    • Why Search and rescue Robot?

    I was always amazed with the Robotic technology and wanted to know how robots are build. It would be exciting for me to build my own Robot. I was confused with fixing my project idea, atlast i decided to make a Search and Rescue robot.

    Project Ideas

  • Disaster time robot, a robot that could save people's lives in disaster scenes.
  • With the help of the ultrasonic sensor , it can know the obstacles in front of it autonomously.
  • Meanwhile, it also got a LED module which can be used to light up the path to look for survivors.
  • By using a passive infrared sensor, it is able to detect people even if the visibility is impaired.
  • It will also have an all terrain wheel and chasis structure, so it could be useful anywhere.

    • Design and Rough Sketch

    rough sketch

    I have not completly decided my design of the robot, but i am planning to build a miniature version of an All terrain heavy vehicle

  • The chasis and the wheel could be woodworked.
  • The body of the vehicle could be 3d printed
  • Additionally apart from the sensors, we could add a camera to the Robot

    Later on after my week review with Neil, he advised me to cut short or focus on any of the projects( he thought it as a combination of projects).

    Still I wanted to build a moving machine, so I thought of building A small toy car with DC motors which could be controlled using a mobile application
    And I wanted it to have its on thoughts in not colliding with obstacles, so a motion/distance sensor attached to give itself instructions to semidrive

    Bluetooth controlled DC motor Car with IR sensor

    What will it do?

    The DC motor robot (car, i prefer robot) which have a IR sensor(or ultra sonic sensor)

  • The Master could control and drive the car through his mobile phone using a bluetooth sensor,
  • Also the ultrasonic sensor looks for the obstacles and avoids them.

    • Who's done what beforehand?

    I have searched the internet for similar projects and i came across a few projects in the instructables relating to the bluetooth driven DC car, see below links.

  • Bluetooth controlled RC car by Dzefri
  • Open MenuOpen Source Turtle Robot (OSTR) by MakersBox
  • ADAFRUIT MOTOR SHIELD TUTORIAL By TrungT4

    • Then also seen a Fab project not similar to my project but somewhat useful,
  • YLi , FABRICATION LAB Harvard, Fab Academy 2013 

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