The primary goal of this MQP is to produce a user friendly robot that assists users in navigating a given area. Specifically, this group chose to focus on a hospital setting. In order to achieve this goal, the group designed a robot that was capable of navigation, possessed an arm with which to open doors, and that could be commanded by users from an intuitive on-board UI. A secondary goal of this MQP was to create an extensible platform for future groups. To achieve this goal, the team designed a modular backend system so that new modules could be added to the robot in the future with minimal time spent by future groups on integration.

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Creator

• Fainer, Joseph Richard
• Leger, Erin Marie
• Hackett, Jacob Ryan
• Farro, Thomas William
• Yu, Emily Mengyue

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042617-165455

Advisor

• Fischer, Gregory S.
• Sidner, Candace

Year

• 2017

Date created

• 2017-04-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary
• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-01-03