Mobile Robot (Structure, Sensor Unit and Motor Drive)

• Main Author: Ishak, Mohd Azrin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2006
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/7158/1/2006%20-%20Mobile%20Robot%20%28Structure%2C%20Sensor%20Unit%20and%20Motor%20Drive%29.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/7158/

A Mobile Robot is developed to detect and avoid obstacles during its navigation from one point to another point. The Mobile Robot system is composed of 5 (five) main parts, which is structure / mechanical part, to do the mechanical part of the robot; sensor unit part, to detect and send the received signal to the controller part; motor drive part, to navigate the robot; controller part, acts as a brain of the robot to control all action taken by the robot; and power supply part, which is used to power up the entire system of the robot. This project has been assigned to two students so that the scope of works can be divided into hardware and software implementation. This report will concentrate on the hardware implementation part including all the circuits used for the system of the robot. The methods used in this project are literature review, research via the internet and books, simulation by using certain software and testing the robot system. The model then is built and its motive is to find its own path and avoid collision in the designed maze.