ECE 110/120 Honors Lab Section : Short Distance Delivery Car-car

Project Proposal

-Rui Pu(ruip2)[ece 120] & Zikun Chen(zikunc2)[ece 110]

Introduction:

       In a nutshell, we are planning on making an electric small car-car that helps people deliver objects in a short distance. The car will connect to a device via Bluetooth/Wifi, the route it takes every time will be calculated in the connected device (phone/computer) according to the map provided, and the real time location will be updated to the device it connected to.

Background Research

       We’ve already had advanced and efficient technology for long distance delivery, but there can be a better and more efficient way to do the short distance delivery. For example, the short distance delivery car-car can be used in Inpatient Department/emergency room; it always takes a long time for nurses to pick up the medicines and deliver to patients’ rooms, because they are busy doing other works. In this case, our car-car can do this job for them.

Parts

1. Car kit; 2. Arduino mega; 3. GPRS sheild; 4. GPS module.

Block Diagram

Possible Challenges

1. Real time location system setup

2. Protection of the object and the car-car

Reference

Wikipedia: real time location system. (We haven’t looked at other similar projects yet).