Eyebot
Team members:
- Amr Aldaiel
- Andrew Kravitz
- Katie Noble
- Zachary Taylor
- Alan Yim
Our group plans to build a security robot. This robot will be for use in homes or businesses where no one is present but surveillance of the premises is still desired. Our robot's monitoring instruments will be mounted on a mobile base that we will construct, driven by four motorized wheels. The robot's two main sensory apparatus will be its thermometer and camera, and may incorporate more sensors if time allows. The camera will have night vision or illumination capabilities for useful operation in unlit areas. Both instruments will send information back to a "base" computer to be displayed for the user. Initially, information traversing between the base computer and the unit will be accomplished via an RS232 cable. Once this implementation is working correctly we will attempt to upgrade to wireless communication. The robot's movement will be pre-programmed for specified routes on which it will collect data at specified locations to be transmitted back to the base computer. Once we have this functionality operating correctly we will attempt to add the option for a user to manually control the robot for real time information retrieval.