Week 13 - Prepare the Proposal Report Part3

Week 13 : 9th - 15th Dec

Objective:

• Study the assessment for Proposal Report
• Finish the report before the due date on Friday (13th Dec)

Contents:

In finishing the report, the format of the Proposal Report have been followed. After last two weeks in preparing the report, finally the report completed. The report have been submitted to the supervisor on the Friday, 13th December at around 4 pm.

Week 12 - Prepare the Proposal Report Part2

Week 12 : 2th - 8th Dec

Objective:

• Study the assessment for Proposal Report
• Finish the report before the due date on week 13
• Do more research for references 

Contents:

For this week, I am focusing in the Literature Review and Material & Methodology parts for my report. 

In the Literature Review part,defines the theoretical study and the recent study from the journal or any other relevant sources. The related sources that i did for my report as follow:

• Rakesh Chandra Kumar, Md. Saddam Khan, Dinesh Kumar,Rajesh Birua,SarmisthaMondal5, ManasKr.Parai, Obstacle Avoiding Robot – A Promising One, April 2013

• DeBoer, J., King, K., Perkusich, M., et al. “Senior Design Project Proposal for Tigertron Control System”, December 2010.

• SugYug Choi and Jang Myung Lee, “Applications of Moving Windows Technique to Autonomous Vehicle Navigation,” Image and Vision Computing, vol. 24 no. 2, pp. 120-130, 2006.

• (2012, 12). Line Following Robot. StudyMode.com. Retrieved 12, 2012, from http://www.studymode.com/essays/Line-Following-Robot-1330507.html 

with all these researches, I finally complete my Literature Review part as picture below

For the Material & Methodology part, the analysis for hardware and study have to be relevant to the objectives of the report. The material and the methodology have to support the scope of the studies. The contents of my Material & Methodology as follow:

Week 11 - Prepare the Proposal Report Part1

Week 11 : 25th - 1th Dec

Objective:

• Study the assessment for Proposal Report
• Finish the report before the due date on week 13
• Do more research for references 

Contents:

Here is the assessment for the report

In this week, I am trying to complete two part which are Abstract and the Introduction. 

For the Abstract part, is about the research, scope of study, the methodology to be employed and the expected findings.  While for the Introduction part, the contents should have are the research background and the overview of research study and the problem  statement. 

Results:

After do a lot of research, here is my content of the Abstract and Introduction parts. 

Week 10 - Preparation for Presentation Proposal FYP Part 2 (cont)

Week 10 : 18th - 24th Nov

Objective:

Completing the assessment criteria for the presentation.
Prepare the slide for the presentation.


Contents:


Comparison between IR and Ultra-Sonic Sensors:

—Ultra-Sonic Sensor

—-time of flight distance measurement 

-longer range than IR

-accurate distance of obstacle

—IR Sensor

—-angle (parallax) distance measurement

-shorter range than ultra-sonic sensor

-affected by sunlight

-affected by color of object.(dark)

Materials:

i. Sensor part

Ultra-sonic sensors

ii.Control board part

Arduino Uno Controller

iii.Movement part

Servo Motor

 

iv.Application part

Vacuum Cleaner

Conclusion

• The Obstacle Avoiding Robot is able to produce the basic movements using two motors, that develop the robot with very good intelligence which is capable to sense the obstacle and avoid it between the path.
• —Producing the code of the Arduino Controller as the brain of the robot which make the smooth movement.
• —By using the robot, the daily work for human is more simpler.

Week 9 - Preparation for Presentation Proposal FYP Part 1

Week 9 : 11th - 17th Nov

Objective:

1. Completing the assessment criteria for the presentation.
2. Prepare the slide for the presentation. 

Contents:

The assessment criteria are:

After did research, here the contents of my project proposal slide. 

Introduction:

• —In today’s world robotic is fast growing and interesting field. This is because it easy to modified. 
• Therefore I decided to work on robotic field, and design something which will make human life simpler in day today aspect.
• —In this project, I proposed to design a robot, “i-vacuum robot” by using obstacle avoiding robot’s concept.
• —This robot has sufficient intelligence to cover the maximum area of provided space. It has a ultra-sonic sensor which are used to sense the obstacles coming in between the path of robot. It will move in particular direction and avoid the obstacle which is coming in its path.

Problem Statement:

• Nowadays people too busy of their work and not enough time for housekeeping. With this idea, people can do the housekeeping without guidance.
• Robotic is a part of advancement of technology, with using the robots, it makes human life much simpler.

Objective:

• —To develop an avoidance behaviors program for a robot that consists of legs that employs the motors.
• —To explore the Arduino Uno Controller as the brain for the robot that controls the movement.
• To explore the interfacing of Ultra-Sonic sensor with Arduino Controller

Significant of Study:

• The word robotics is widely used to define a engineering’s field that covers the mimicking of various human characteristics.
• It must be able to perform certain tasks that is set for it.
• The desired task must be achieved within some given limitations.

Scope and Limitation:—

• The project uses Arduino Uno Controller as the controlling element. It uses Ultra-Sonic sensors circuitry. When the Obstacle comes in path of robot, the ultra-sonic sensor detect the obstacle and decides to avoid by taking left or right turn.
• —If the sensor detect no obstacle present in it path so it goes straight until any obstacle is detected. 

Ultra-Sonic Sensor—

• An Ultrasonic sensor is a device that can measure the distance to an object by using sound waves by sending out a sound wave at a specific frequency and listening for that sound wave to bounce back.

Week 8 - Block Diagram & Flowchart

Week 8 : 4th - 10th Nov

Objective:

1. Understand about the project's functionality.
2. Recognise the input and output of the project.

Content:

From the diagram flowchart above, the robot will always check the signal to initialising the port. If the signal have received when the obstacle detected, it will set the robot's direction to left or right. Until then, it will go forward direction. 

Diagram above show the block diagram of the project. The sensor will be as the input project that will give signal to the controller. Then the controller will decide to go left or right direction by giving signal to motor drive and the left and right motor as the output of the project.

Conclusion:

From the flowchart and the block diagram above, we can see more clearly of the project movement. The input as the sensor, that will give the signal to the controller to make the motor go left or right direction as the output.