Connected and Automated Systems

INTRODUCTION Unmanned vehicles received their fame after the successful launch of self-driving cars by Google Inc. Following this, the projects based on unmanned vehicles took deeper roots. Sooner the aspects of human capacity/endurance, safety, reliability started gaining attention. The industries got keen on developing an Automated Guided Vehicle for warehouse management (AGV). The Defense forces desired to replace human intervention to carry supplies to the camps located on top of hills and also to defuse/detect landmines. Under these motivations, an appreciable amount of work has been accomplished on unmanned vehicles. MOTIVATION With this background, we, a group of four Undergraduate students from the ECE department of the Indian Institute of Information Technology(IIIT) Sricity, started working on a prototype of an All-purpose Unmanned vehicle. The system is able to traverse on rough terrains such as muddy roads, sloping hills, water-logged paths even climb a few steps...

Motivation - Robotics is one of the most advancing area of technology in recent years. It has the power to potentially reduce human effort of doing a task. We intend to start to understand and implement Robotic technology through this project.           We will be building a gesture imitating animatronic hand which should imitate the gesture of real hand. Architecture -   The r esistance of the flex sensor varies according to the change in its angle . The flex sensor value is fed to arduino as input, the arduino maps the sensor reading to the angle which the arm of servo motor needs to rotate. Flex sensors are attached to the fingers glove which is worn on the hand whose gestures are to be imitated.Fingers of the robotic hand were made using pen barrels and springs. Strings are connected to the finger tips of the animatronic hand, these strings get pulled when the arm of the servo motor rotates resulting in the imitation of gestures. We ne...

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