Software Development And Motion Control For A Swarm Of Robots

I would wish to acknowledge ……University, school of ……..and more particularly to the Department of ……….for offering me this unit, research proposal in compliance with the requirements for award of degree. I also want to thank my supervisor … for assisting me in developing this project proposal to the best of my standard.

The researcher would like to thank the following people who help and give guidance to make this project

In this project work, LPC2148 ARM7TDMI microcontroller is used. The Microcontroller works according to the program written in it. The idea is that the microcontroller will be placed in the Robot to calculate the quality of water and control the movement of robot (Forward, Backward, Upward and Downward). It also has GPS and GSM module which is controlled by the microcontroller.

This memo describes my progress to date in the course COSC 684 300: Professional Internship in Summer 2015 semester. I shall also discuss my plans to successfully complete the course in August 2015. The memorandum would be divided in three main task areas which were agreed at the time of the individual internship agreement between me and the department.

First, I thank my Supervisor Mr. Neeraj Arora for his continuous support to making this project Mr. Neeraj Arora was always there to listen and to give advice. He is responsible for involving me in this project in the first place. He taught me how to ask questions & which technique used for analysis. He showed me different ways to approach for the analysis.

The researcher would like to thank the following people who help and give guidance to make this project

In order to avoid accidently meddling with the robot while retaining some semblance of usefulness, I created a technical journal, a written documentation of the team’s thought process to be judged in competition. I detailed revisions, prototypes, and organized data. A heavy binder of sketches emerged, full of research, thoroughly-explained trail-and-error, and reasoning .

FRC Team 3324, The Metrobots, is a member of the FIRST Robotics Competition. Our robotics team is based out of Metro Early College High School, a STEM school located in Columbus, Ohio. Our team consists of 66 students from 26 school districts throughout the state. Each year, we participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition, in which we design, build, and refine our robot in order to compete on a regional and global scale.. However, the success of our team is not attributed just to our robot, but to other aspects of our team as well. Last season alone, our team qualified for the World Championships through receiving the Engineering Inspiration Award, a prestigious award based upon a team’s involvement in its surrounding community.

Determine which specific thing will the system do first was surprisingly difficult, because we want the user to understand every commands on the interface without extra instruction. Even though with our best effort, user still have a difficult time understand the interface. In the future, we need to improve the mapping of the user interface. During our prototype test, we found out that we can merge multiple commands into one user interface and limiting our interface will help to users have a better understanding of the commands. For example, the commands for setting the distance and the angle of the drone can be put into one interface. In addition, the movement and orientation commands could put into one interface. Overall our design is a good prototype, but there are things we need to improve

In the first lab we were tasked to visually inspect the robot, controller, work cell, and the surrounding area of the robot station. We were also tasked to identify robot safety devices used in the robot station. Once we completed identifying the problems with the robot we were tasked with multiple objectives which include; Power the R-30iA robot controller on and off, select jogging frames using the teach pendent, jog the robot joints using the teach pendent, and operating the robot gripper to pick up an object and move it. This lab was created to teach students who have not used a robot before. The tasks that were given were meant to be an introduction into robotics and to identify the safety concerns with using a powerful robot. The importance

Before I start this report, I would like to give my warmest thanks to Marc Wolff, my work placement mentor, who trusted me since the beginning despite my low professional experience. He formed me since my first day and guided me until my last day. He also introduced me to the Information Technology (IT) & Service field. Through his constructive and critical perspective, he highlighted what I could improve and what I should not change. He allowed me to deeply discover the business world through private events, important calls and interesting meetings.

The industrial robots are applied in all branches of the industry. The highest level of application is in the automobile industry, but the number of installed robots is increasing in other industries as well (Karabegovic, Dolecec, Husak, 2011).

In this career episode, I have described the activities from 1st June 2010 to 25th June 2010, the period during which I worked as an Intern for TIDC India, Andhra Pradesh. I was a full time Intern for the above mentioned period, completing the internship as part of the course work for ‘Industry Oriented Mini Project,’ during my degree ‘Bachelor of Technology – Mechanical Engineering.’

Swarm intelligence was been proposed and induced in the Artificial Intelligence by Beni and Wang [10] in 1989. It was been applied in the context of cellular robotic systems. Swarm Intelligence are basically small agents or living organisms which will collectively work together and make optimality or the group work will end with some beneficiary report. Inspiration from those group works and turning it into the artificial things and making those ideas possible in the computers to attain some sort of goal is called swarm intelligence. The inspiration basically from the nature and to be

The robot is the device or machine that can automatically perform one or several tasks that can be done by human via remote control, or by preprograming being controlled and powered with Artificial intelligence.[1]