Week 8:Introduction to our project

Team members: Enchun Shao, Huyunting Huang

 The robot will include a manual mode and an automatic mode and we will use iRobot, camera, detection sensor and raspberry pi to assemble the machine. We will develop an algorithm for automation mode so that the robot is able to detect some emergency situations by itself. We will choose the most appropriate detection sensor to help us detect and analyze the environment. In additional, the robot will include manual mode because we believe that there are still several emergency situations which the robot could not be detected. As a result, we will control ourselves when we consider the robot is not working as we expected. We will use raspberry pi to control the system manually and the camera will help us to view the situation.

The manual mode will could be executed on a smart phone through a WIFI connection and the robot can go up, down, left, right by the control. We are able to switch between manual mode and automatic mode on the smart phone. When the robot is working through the automatic mode, it will working by itself. When we switch to manual mode, the robot will stop any service in the automatic mode. People could control the robot immediately after the switch.

There are many sensors around us. There will be some problem if we did not choose the appropriate sensor. For example, the robot will receive an invalid data and the robot will not work normally. In a result, choosing sensor will be a challenge for us. We will try infrared or light senor to see if it is fit.

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