Capstone Project

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Group 2020-22 Status completed
Title Home Robot Dogtor
Supervisor S. Hashtrudi Zad
Description The goal of this project is to build a robot called DOGTOR for home safety and health,designed for disabled and elderly users as well as children. DOGTOR plays the roles of family doctor, domicile pet and house assistant: for a disabled or elderly person in bed,simple objects may be placed on DOGTOR, which will autonomously follow its user around;for a sick person, it can check body temperature; for visually impaired users the robot can guide and help with avoiding obstacles; for a child who needs mental comfort, it can play like a pet with voice and gesture commands. The information gathered by the robot will be sent to Cloud. The robot has an Android app for controlling user settings and requirements, for this purpose DOGTOR will also have a limited set of voice commands.
Student Requirement Power electronics, Hardware (microprocessors and peripherals), Software (web applications), Database, Digital signal processing, Control systems.
Tools Programmable four-wheel car, sensors, Microcontrollers/microprocessors, voice recognition chip. The required software is available at Concordia or freely available online.
Number of Students 5
Students Jennylyn LANSANGAN Andrew McNAIR Tharshana SIVATHASAN Qing XIA Jiahui WANG
Comments: shahin.hashtrudizad@concordia.ca
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