keytoe
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Hello all,
I am currently doing my final year project where I need to develop a robot that could detect back dots on a floor in a predefined area & able to avoid them. This is actually a prototype of a mine detecting robot which the black dots represent buried land mines. I have made some brainstorming & research about ideas for this project but not much info gained (maybe due to lack of researching skills). By the way, I have also came up with some ideas which would narrow down the details of the project.
I decided to use a micromouse-like robot as the body where I don't need to worry so much about the hardware parts (wheels,motor). It will be powered by batteries (6V or 9V) depends on space & power consumption. I am thinking of using IR sensor to detect the black dots & proximity sensors (IR or ultrasonic) to detect the edge of the area (wall).
The project is a microcontroller based & I think to use PIC 16F887A with programming in C language. The idea is to make the robot able to scan for black dots in the predefined area row-by-row starting from 1 of the area's corners. When a dot is spotted, the robot will avoid it & able to find a way to continue scanning the same row without entering the unscanned area (at the same time avoiding more detected dots).
Apart from that, robot should also be able to send the info to a PC through a medium (serial connection/maybe wireless) in order to map the location of dots (relative to the area) on the screen by using a software. I still haven't any idea of suitable software for this feature.
That's a brief description about my project & I hope that would be enough to give an overall picture. These are only my initial ideas based on the project objectives. How do you think about it & is it feasible? Any ideas or comments about implementing the features & my current preferences are most welcomed & appreciated.
Thank you.
I am currently doing my final year project where I need to develop a robot that could detect back dots on a floor in a predefined area & able to avoid them. This is actually a prototype of a mine detecting robot which the black dots represent buried land mines. I have made some brainstorming & research about ideas for this project but not much info gained (maybe due to lack of researching skills). By the way, I have also came up with some ideas which would narrow down the details of the project.
I decided to use a micromouse-like robot as the body where I don't need to worry so much about the hardware parts (wheels,motor). It will be powered by batteries (6V or 9V) depends on space & power consumption. I am thinking of using IR sensor to detect the black dots & proximity sensors (IR or ultrasonic) to detect the edge of the area (wall).
The project is a microcontroller based & I think to use PIC 16F887A with programming in C language. The idea is to make the robot able to scan for black dots in the predefined area row-by-row starting from 1 of the area's corners. When a dot is spotted, the robot will avoid it & able to find a way to continue scanning the same row without entering the unscanned area (at the same time avoiding more detected dots).
Apart from that, robot should also be able to send the info to a PC through a medium (serial connection/maybe wireless) in order to map the location of dots (relative to the area) on the screen by using a software. I still haven't any idea of suitable software for this feature.
That's a brief description about my project & I hope that would be enough to give an overall picture. These are only my initial ideas based on the project objectives. How do you think about it & is it feasible? Any ideas or comments about implementing the features & my current preferences are most welcomed & appreciated.
Thank you.