08-10-2010, 05:31 PM
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Abstract
Robotics today are advancing to the point where many tasks that used to be for humans only have been supplemented by machines that can do the same tasks faster and safer than their human counterparts. Factories are using automated robots that do repetitive tasks all day long leaving the more skill oriented tasks for qualified personnel. Nowadays, some modern households have small autonomous vacuum cleaners that patrol the house cleaning while no one is actually controlling them. Of course these products have their limitations. A human is always needed to verify that the robot is doing its job appropriately. We don't really want to leave people out of checkpoints and quality control, but the robots can do the majority of the grunt work for society to provide a safer, cleaner, and potentially better place to live for all humanity. With the advancement and ever shrinking foot print of microcontrollers and central processing units more power and features can be fit on to smaller devices. This project intended to take advantage of the advancements in the electronics fields to create a functional patrol security guard robot. The research process has been completed, design criteria have been chosen, objectives and constraints have been set, and prototype building and implementation has been completed.
This project intends to build a working prototype of a sentry/patrol robot. The robot is capable of patrolling an area without human interaction while providing feedback as to the state of its surroundings. All instructions to the robot can be given prior to its actual application. In this report we take a look at the other projects and products related to robotics and automation, to get an idea of what is out there and what can we did with today's technology. There are some autonomous robots on the market now which we looked at to introduce our project. In addition, we discussed in detail the different aspects of our project including the needs analysis, risks involved, operating environment that the product is currently working in, intellectual property considerations, and the standards we followed in our project. Moreover, we discussed the ethical issues as well as the health, safety, and environmental impact of the robot. At the end of this report, the end product design and concept development for this project is shown in detail with our conclusion, followed by our information and our hopes for this robot's implementation in the market place.
