Design and Development of Coordinating Autonomous Robots
The scope of this project is to design and develop three robots capable of doing coordinated tasks. These robots will be placed in a room where at some arbitrary position an object will be placed. This object will be large enough such that none of the robots can carry it on their own and would have
2025-06-28 16:26:16 - Adil Khan
Design and Development of Coordinating Autonomous Robots
Project Area of Specialization RoboticsProject SummaryThe scope of this project is to design and develop three robots capable of doing coordinated tasks. These robots will be placed in a room where at some arbitrary position an object will be placed. This object will be large enough such that none of the robots can carry it on their own and would have to coordinate their actions to lift it. The robots will navigate to the object, determine its shape and size and then will coordinate their efforts in carrying it to an already known destination.
The process will be based on three core steps,
•navigation to the object
•determination of its dimensions
•synchronization of actions whilst lifting and carrying the object to its final destination.
And to achieve this it will employ the basic principles of machine learning, automated synchronization, communication, localization, and mapping
Project ObjectivesThe three robots will be able to identify the object they have to lift; they will find their individual path to that object and coordinate with each other and the main controller to move towards that object. On reaching the object the robots will lift the object in coordination and will then move the object towards the destination, coordinating in such a way that the object reaches the destination in a safe manner.
Expected Outcomes
·Autonomous omnidirectional movement
·Synchronized wireless movement
In-Sync Lifting an object that a single robot cannot lift
Project Implementation MethodUsing different types of sensors on board the robots will try to identify themselves in the environment, after identifying their own location, the robots will find the angle from their location to the object, this will be done by the values coming from the sensors as well as the Magnetometer compass attached on each robot that will tell about its head, after attaining the angle, the robots will move in the direction towards the object.
Benefits of the ProjectProject Application:
- Warehouse automation (Macro level)
- Heavy lifting in congested areas
- Aid for disabled
Motivation
- Robots replacing manpower will eliminate human error.
- At the same time three robots doing the same task will also increase accuracy of the task being performed.
- This can be used in warehouses and by physically disabled people.
| Item Name | Type | No. of Units | Per Unit Cost (in Rs) | Total (in Rs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in (Rs) | 79828 | |||
| Motors with Encoders | Equipment | 4 | 2500 | 10000 |
| Motors without Encoders | Equipment | 4 | 700 | 2800 |
| Plastic bots assembly | Equipment | 3 | 4700 | 14100 |
| Acrylic Sheet + Laser cutting | Equipment | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| Lipo Battery | Equipment | 4 | 2400 | 9600 |
| Breadboards | Equipment | 4 | 120 | 480 |
| Copper wires/jumper wire | Equipment | 20 | 50 | 1000 |
| Arduino Mega | Equipment | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| Motor Drivers | Equipment | 5 | 350 | 1750 |
| ESP 32 DEV Kit | Equipment | 5 | 1000 | 5000 |
| TCA95488A | Equipment | 5 | 550 | 2750 |
| 80mm Mecanum Wheels | Equipment | 4 | 4062 | 16248 |
| Different Sensors | Equipment | 9 | 500 | 4500 |
| Poster | Miscellaneous | 2 | 2000 | 4000 |
| Boxes | Miscellaneous | 6 | 1000 | 6000 |