Welcome to the traffic-cone-deployment-robot website!
This website contains a collection of content which is intended to showcase our design process and achievements of building a traffic cone deployment robot for the Engineering Design course AER201.
This course addresses open-ended and multidisciplinary design problems, with the objective of integrating design, engineering analysis, and hardware implementation. The emphasis in this course is not on studying in a classroom from a list of topics, but rather it is a project course, although the fundamentals of design as well as some practical technical notes will also be taught through weekly lectures. After a series of lectures students work in teams on a realistic project. The projects are open-ended design problems relating to fields of electromechanical, computer hardware and software, and instrumentation and interfacing.
The goal of our project is to design and manufacture the scaled-down, proof-of-concept prototype of a mobile platform that can travel along a designated lane and deploy traffic cones.
- Embedded Software Engineer - Hongyu (Charlie) Chen
- Mechanical Engineer - Yutong (Irina) Zhu
- Electrical Engineer - Ryan Chen
The robot was designed and built to exceed the competitions requirements with the following features:
- Interactive LCD and keypad user interface
- Automatic return for reloading
- Fast and accurate driving with lane detection
- Accurate and flexible cone deployment via omnidirectional motion supported by Mecanum wheels.
