ROBOTICS PROJECTS

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ROBOTICS PROJECTS

Robotics would be a good choice in mechanical projects: Robots are very attractive in comparison to other projects and if everything goes well they will make you win.Robotics in one domain where there is lot of scope for innovation and creativity on the part of the students. Robotics Projects are also popular among graduation students and faculty alike because they offer interesting demonstrations at the end of the project work. A robotic project speaks for itself, and most often than not, does not require much of explaining.
Also with colleges and students looking for implementing projects based on IEEE papers, robotic projects make a good choice because of many IEEE papers being available for robotic projects. Our project list contains many possible robotic project ideas and titles based on the latest IEEE 2012 papers. Students can either implement what is mentioned in the IEEE base paper of choose to use the IEEE paper as a reference paper and improvise over the idea in the IEEE papers.

Of late with new technologies like GPS, IMU, Semiconductor Gyroscopes and MEMS there are lot of new and very creative applications that can be done with robotics. Projects in robotics can be of different types, either in terms of robotic vehicles that can mode around, or stationary robots like humanoid hands, or robotic arms with multiple degrees of freedom.
With mobile robots there are choices in terms of the navigation capabilities of the robot, as in guided or autonomous navigation systems. Also in terms of the end application, that the robotic vehicle is designed for. They can also vary depending on the electronic payload that they are carrying depending on the application. Hence with all these combinations many different applications can be created.
With stationary robots innovations in their control systems and input devices can be made. For example a robotic arm could be made to follow a real human hand using MEMS and IMUs to replicate the movement of a human hand as close as possible, leading to a humanoid hand. Alternatively robotic projects for high precision applications can also be made for handling chemicals or biomedical applications.
Robotic projects are applicable for various core departments like ECE, EEE, E&I etc. ECE projects in robotics can make use of extensive communication technologies like Zigbee, Bluetooth, GPS, GSM etc. EEE Projects in Robotics can be used to demonstrate the usage of various electrical machine and special machines like servo motors or hybrid stepper motors. Robotic projects could be for many different applications like defense robot, surveillance robots, safety and security robots, rescue robots etc. Robotic projects can also be used in industrial projects for material handling, process automation and many other applications.
                                   

Robots :

http://www.societyofrobots.com/ - ROBOTS





http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/slides/L2-basics.pdf -pdf file


         
Download Project topics list for the year 2012-13 based on IEEE 2012 papers for final year projects in ECE, EEE, E&I   - http://www.ensemble-tech.com/project-topics

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yes robot are good project in ME.....

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MORE ROBOTICS PROJECTS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS

 

Voice operated Intelligent Fire extinguisher vehicle. - http://www.mycollegeproject.com/Abstracts/Voice%20operated%20Intelligent%20Fire%20extinguisher%20vehicle.pdf - PDF FILE
Radio Frequency based remote controlled robot with wireless video camera mounted on it.

Zigbee controlled Boat with wireless video and voice transmission with night vision capability.
Autonomous Robot with artificial vision for obstacle detection.

Voice operated robot with speaker identification technology.
Accelerometer (Gyroscope) Controlled Robot. Accelerometer is MEMS based 3-axis tilt sensor that can sense the tilt in any of the 3-dimensions. The robot moment is controlled based on the tilt angle of the remote. No need to press any buttons for robot control.

wireless room freshener spraying robot with video vision.
Touch Screen Controlled intelligent robot.

Mobile phone Bluetooth operated robot (works with any java enabled phone).
DTMF based humanless Robotic boat control for ocean research application.
Live Human being detection wireless remote controlled Robot. (Useful for detection of terrorists hiding inside buildings).

GSM (SMS) Mobile Phone Controlled Intelligent Robot.

Pick and place robot.
Micro Electro Mechanical Sensor (MEMS) Accelerometer/Gyroscope based self-balancing robot.

Servo motor controlled wireless video camera control system.
Mobile phone controlled four-legged walking robot with speed and direction control.

Radio Frequency (RF) Controlled Wireless Robot.

Infrared Light tracing Robot (TV Remote controlled).

Android mobile phone controlled bluetooth robot.
Visible light follower Robot.

Human-robot interface using robust speech recognition.
Accelerometer (Gyroscope) Controlled Robot.

DTMF based Mobile phone controlled Robot.

Obstacle detection robot with mechanical sensing switches.

Computer controlled Pic and Place Robot (wired or wireless).
Line Follower Robot.

Bomb detection Robot.
Live Human detection and alerting Robot.

Construction of flying Quad Rotor Chopper with Video camera surveillance system.
Remote Controlled Land Rover.

Smoke and LPG Gas detection robot with wireless control.
PC Controlled Wired Robot.

Wireless Voice and image transmission robot for surveillance system.
PC Controlled Wireless Robot.

Speech recognition robot with ultrasonic obstacle avoidance system.
Obstacle detection Robot with Ultrasonic Sensors.

Wall Follower Robot.

Digital Compass and GPS based self navigating Robot.
Robot Controlled Wireless Audio-Video Streaming Camera.

speech controlled wireless elevator system.
  40.  Bomb displacing robot with wireless video camera controlled form PC/Laptop.

  41. Wireless operated war field land Rover that alerts on sensing planted Land Mines.

  42. Wireless operated Fire extinguisher Robot with water jet spray.

  43. Wireless operated War field spying Robot with night vision wireless camera.

  44. Wifi robot controlled from Android smart mobile phone.

  45. GPS and Digital Compassed based self navigating robot.

  46. PC controlled wireless Multipurpose robot.

  47. flying Quad robot chopper with wireless video camera.

 

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MAZE SOLVING ROBOT

We have discussed many projects in Robotics before including Line Follower Robot. Maze Solving Robot is similar project but before we discuss about this project, we should know about maze and our objective.

What is Maze?



Maze is a type of puzzle with start start and end points including many dead ends.To solve this puzzle we need to find right path in a fastest possible way.

What type of maze we are going to use for our robot?
Usually, this project requires line maze which is black line on a white background.

Our Objective:

We will build a robot which can find its way in a line maze from start point to end point.

Basic Requirements:

Two Motors: Motors will move robot forward(Both motors running) and help it turns towards left(left motor slow and right fast) or right( right motor slow and left fast).

Five Infrared Sensors: Sensors helps robot to find its path and keeps it updated about the line on the floor.With five sensors their are 32 combination possible but many of them are unlikely to occur in our experiment.For ex. 11111(All indicating black) will never occur because their is only one line and this pattern is showing that line on both side of robot including line on which it is moving.


Concept:

Deciding some rules:
Before implementing this project, you should  decide some basic rules which robot must follow. For example if robot face a situation of T or Four Way , in which direction it should turn? Some students go for right hand rule where robot always give preference to right hand side and some go for left hand rule, though both rules are correct, you need to select one of them and teach robot accordingly.

Intersection:

Define intersections ( turns except only right and only left) where robot needs to take decisions.

Storing Information:

Robot should store information about Dead ends(180 degree turns where pattern is five zeroes 00000) and Bad turns.

Algorithm:


Step 1). Robot will start from first end and move straight as their is only one line.

Step 2). It will move Left because their is only left direction( no intersection so no storage) where it can move.

Step 3). Move Left again(no intersection therefore no storage)

Step 4). Move Left ( Intersection and we apply Left hand Rule) Store L

Step 5). Take U Turn ( Reached Dead End) Store value becomes LU

Step 6). Take Left Again ( Intersection and applies left hand rule) Store value becomes LUL . We move Left but because we took U turn in fifth step we now know that we should not have taken Step 4) .To avoid this mistake for future we will replace LUL to S.

Step 7). Move Straight ( Intersection again but as we are following left hand rule, we will not turn towards right,instead we will follow straight Path) and stored value becomes SS

Step . Turn right ( Only right available therefore no intersection)

Step 9.) Reach Target.

So SS will correctly guide robot in next run.

Useful Links:

Maze Solving Robot :- http://cscott.net/Projects/theseus.pdf

Recursion Solving a Maze :- http://www.cs.bu.edu/teaching/alg/maze/

Micro mouse: Intelligent autonomous maze solving robot :- http://eces.colorado.edu/~mohamema/micromouse.pdf

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JOYSTICK CONTROLLED CAR DRIVE MECHANISM FOR PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE

We often see that, persons with disability needs to use mobility car.Mobility Car is a vehicle issued to a disabled person, to allow them to travel without burden of their disability. Mobility cars are obtained from a scheme called "Motability". But this car too not come with some preconditions and these conditions are difficult to met for severely disabled person.Moreover, driving a car is always difficult for a person with having control distributed all over.
                                   

This project is for mechanical engineering students and would be extremely useful for people who are impair the physical abilities

Our objective:
We want to build a car which can be operated by using joystick. If we can build that, it would be great help for disabled persons.

Why we need this type of system?

Existing system in the market are modified to allow the physically disabled to drive but it still needs lots of improvements.


How to build one?

The Vehicle works in two modes:
1) Joystick:- A joystick is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. We will take input from user through a joystick and then process it to produce servo commands via a Arduino Board.
2) Autonomous driving in constrained environment: Using input from Kinect sensor.Kinect is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs to obtain depth image and process the frames in real-time.To perform depth based blob detection combining it with vision based blob tracking to perform a robust obstacle detection. The technique involves using a slice of depth image for detecting obstacles and then finding path taking in view the maximum steering angle, width of the vehicle, turning radius etc.

System Requirements:
Languages Used: python 2.5,autonomous module is built in c# and uses emgucv
Softwares: Aforge image processing libraries and Microsoft Kinect SDK 1.0
Hardware includes - Standard Laptop (Intel core i5-2410M @ 2.30 GHZ, 4GB RAM), Joystick, Kinect Sensor, Arduino Uno Microcontroller, Servo, UPS, Battery, servo motors, h-bridges and wireless transmitter and receiver(Fail safe) .
The vehicle also has a fail-safe mechanism that is used to control vehicle in emergency using a wireless remote.

Related PDF:

JOYSTICK CONTROLLED CAR:- http://www.vti.se/en/publications/pdf/joystick-controlled-cars-for-drivers-with-severe-disabilities.pdf

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STIRLING ENGINE MINI RC CAR


We had discussed both Stirling Engine and Remote control cars in two separate posts.  In this post we will combine these two technologies. Before we start our discussion, I would briefly describe both of them.

Stirling Engine


1.Piston 2. Displacer, Hot gases in the left side of Heat displacer, push it forward to move piston.


It is an external combustion engine where combustion occurs outside the engine itself. An advantage with this engine is that, it can be used with any type of heating source both renewable and non renewable. Basic form of engine consists of one cylinder, hot at one end and cold at the other, loose fitting displacer, power piston and flywheel.

When we heat at one end, gas starts to expand and push loose displacer forward, which is connected with piston which eventually revolves the flywheel. With its revolution it pushes back the fitting displacer to its original position having cold gas at both ends again. This cycle continues till the heat is supplied from heat source.

RC Cars




These cars are usually powered by electric batteries can be controlled by remote control. It consists of three components, transmitter (our remote), receiver (which receives transmitter signal) and car itself. Transmitter role is not only limited to receiving signals but it also transforms these radio waves into electric signals and controls the components. Most of these cars use Amplitude modulation but some newer once also use Frequency modulation. If you have never heard about modulation, our fm and am radio works with same transmitter, receiver concept. By the way, frequency most often used in mini remote cars is 2.4 GHz.

RC Cars itself is a big concept and out of scope for this post, for this project idea, I would rather recommend you to buy an RC car from toy store and install our engine on it. If it works, then you can shift your focus to build one car by yourself.


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AUTONOMOUS AGILE AERIAL ROBOT


The most effective way to build autonomous aerial vehicle is quad rotor.

A quadrotor, also called a quadrotor helicopter or quadrocopter, is a multicopter that is lifted and propelled by four rotors.


University of  Pennsylvania professor Vijay Kumar and his team developed such a quad rotor robot which can operate autonomously without the help of  remote control or GPS System.


I found this project very interesting and thought to share it with you.

Why this aerial robot different from its counterparts?

It it different because of its small size(8 inch)  and less power consumption(around 15 watts).Moreover, it is agile,autonomous and smart enough to take its own decisions while flying both indoors and outdoors.

What's the use of it?

It can be used in Biochemical leaks, Construction and Transportation.

How it works ?

As professor Vijay explained, it has four rotors. If you spin these rotors at the same speed, the robot hovers. If you increase the speed of each of these rotors, then the robot flies up, it accelerates up. To accelerate this robot horizontally it should be in tilted position.

There's two ways of doing it :

One is to rotate rotor four faster and rotor two slower. And when you do that, there's moment that causes this robot to roll. And the other way around, if you increase the speed of rotor three and decrease the speed of rotor one, then the robot pitches forward. And then finally, if you spin opposite pairs of rotors faster than the other pair, then the robot yaws about the vertical axis. So an on-board processor essentially looks at what motions need to be executed and combines these motions and figures out what commands to send to the motors 600 times a second. That's basically how this thing operates. So one of the advantages of this design is, when you scale things down, the robot naturally becomes agile.

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In today's world it is easier to imagine Robots walking or crawling but it would be much be much better if they can ride a bicycle! . This is possible in various ways but the only solution which pumps in my mind is Self Balancing Bicycles.A self-powered unicycle that balances itself in three dimensions, is an interesting problem in robotics and control theory.The concept is similar to what we use in Segway.



IIT Madras studenst tried to build self balancing , self driven bicycle as there final year project (shown in Video below).It would be great project idea for students of Robotic and Mechanical Engineering.

How much it costs?

 All together the components, in single unit retail quantities, cost about $1500. They are:

A microcontroller board from BDMicro featuring the Atmel AVR Mega 128. $125.

A gyroscope and acceleromoter by Rotomotion. $149.

The OSMC motor controller by Robot Power. $199.


40 NIMH cells, made into nice packs by Robot Marketplace. $218.

A Magmotor S28-150. $299

The Whyachi TWM3M gearbox. $345.

A 16-inch bicycle rim with spokes. $35 from your local bike shop.  100 psi tire, which makes turning slightly
easier.

A custom-machined hub.

A GT2 5 mm pitch belt, and 28 and 72-tooth pulleys.$21, $26 and $14.

Some 1" diameter tubing, TIG-welded together. $40

A guard for the upper pulley, machined from black Acetal plastic.

Some spacer bushings to center the wheel.

A combination dead man's switch and key. $12.

A unicycle seat. $24.



Related  Links:

How Stuff Works Tutorial:- http://videos.howstuffworks.com/wgbh-nova/2343-self-balancing-robotic-motorcycle-video.htm

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AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER ROBOT VEHICLE



An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a robot which travels underwater without requiring input from an operator.AUVs carry sensors to navigate autonomously and map features of the ocean. Typical sensors include compasses, depth sensors, side scan and other sonars, magnetometers, thermistors and conductivity probes.

University of Florida robotics engineering students developed a robot Subjugator , which can to swim through underwater tubes without a remote control.


USES : 

These vehicles are used in underwater research because of their ability to work autonomously. They do not require guidance from humans despite having a capability to swim in dangerous underwater.They can collect data and material from deep inside the sea  which can later be used in various research activities.
 
USEFUL LINK:- http://theobrower.com/projects/7

RELATED BOOKS :-

http://www.icee.usm.edu/ICEE/conferences/asee2007/papers/658_FRESHMAN_PROJECT__AUTONOMOUS_UNDERWATER_.pdf - PROJECT REPORTS ON AUR.

Things required to build this project :

Lego Mindstorms Kit:   $200

Pelican Case:   $7

Propellers: $3

Waterproofing Supplies:   $2   

TOTAL     $212

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TALKING ROBOTS WITH LEGO MINDSTORMS



From the days of "Small Wonder" TV show , I always wanted to have one robot which can talk and response just like human.To build one as Robotic Project is really interesting. This project is going to be very interesting and challenging because our robot requires not only speak capability but should have artificial intelligence to learn from its surroundings.

Architecture for talking robots consists of four main modules:
Dialogue system
Speech client with speech recognition and synthesis capabilities
Module for infrared communication between the PC and the RCX and
the program that runs on the RCX itself.


USEFUL PDF: http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/C/C04/C04-1049.pdf


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BALL SORTING MINDSTROM LEGO PROJECT



Ball sorting project is interesting one because it helps you to understand various important concepts of Robotics such as finding distance of objects , recognizing them , pick and drop them and things like that.
 

USEFUL LINKS:

 SORT THE BOLL:-

http://design.stanford.edu/spdl/ME218b/pastprojects/0708/batcountre/BatCountre/Sort_the_Balls.html

NXT SENSORS :- http://courses.washington.edu/engr100/Section_Wei/NXT/NXT_sensors.pdf


Hardware Requirement :

Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 which includes :
Ultrasonic sensor
Touch sensors: Lets the robot react to touch
Servo motors: Allows the robot to interact with the environment
NXT Brick: The programmable core that reads the sensors and controls the motors and things many more. You can buy it from any online store including amazon.com

Software Requirement :

NXT-G :  is a graphical programming environment that comes bundled with the NXT. With careful construction of MyBlocks to encapsulate complexity, NXT-G can be used for real-world programming.

Complete Instruction and Details at Robin Newman's Page:- http://r.newman.ch/lego/

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MECHANICAL STAIR CLIMBING ROBOT




Stair Climbing Robots : Modern day robot needs to do extraordinary things in extraordinary circumstances. In a fire fighting time, there is time when it needs to climb stairs on its own , not only climb but find out when to climb and when to move forward.


To achieve that ,we need to design our robot in such a way that it can move forward as well as climb stairs easily. To achieve that , engineers use various techniques similar to innovative wheel design as shown in video.

RELATED PDF:

Stair Climber :- http://courses.washington.edu/art483/site/images/stairclimber.pdf

Autonomous Stair Climber :- http://courses.washington.edu/art483/site/images/stairclimber.pdf


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