Project

# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
25 Airport Baggage Robot
Jiajun Hu
Xuchen Ding
Yixuan Li
Yuhao Wang
design_document3.pdf
final_paper2.pdf
proposal2.pdf
Liangjing Yang
# Team Members
- Jiajun Hu jiajunh5 654970401
- Yixuan Li yixuan19
- Yuhao Wang yuhaow7
- Xucheng Ding xuchend2

# Title
Airport Baggage Robot

# Problem

Carrrying bags in airport is somehow inconvenient, because airport is to large and you need to carry the bag for a long time. We want to free our hands.

# Solution Overview

We plan to build a wheel-legged robot to carry the bags for customers. You can place the bag on this robot and it will automaticlly follow you via computer vision to the boarding gate. The leg control algorithm allows this robot to cross barriers like steps and steep ramps.

# Solution Components
## Subsystem 1
The gyroscope system used to balance the leg wheel robot
## Subsystem 2
5-links solver algorithm to control the position of robot legs to balance the robot.
## Subsystem 3
The visual algorithm is used to identify the following users and the path planning algorithm is used to plan the route and achieve the goal of avoiding obstacles. Since we are solving with the visual solution, so we will simply use a high resolution camera for recognition instead of 12 Vehicle radars. And the other components are mainly software-level.

# Criterion for Success
1. The robot is able to balance itself
2. The robot can adapt to different weights by adjusting its posture
3. At least can identify the person and follow the person. What is more, if the tracking path has obstacles, it can avoid them.

# Distribution of Work
- Jiajun Hu: CAD model
- Yixuan Li: Construction of robot
- Yuhao Wang: Control algorithms
- Xuchen Ding: PCB

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