Driving Miss Daisy

Class: IMDL Spring 2009
Student: Moishe Groger

Summary

Driving Miss Daisy (DMD) is an autonomous robot that is capable of following a track around a house or apartment to navigate between points of interest such as the bathroom, the kitchen or the front door. DMD uses sonar for obstacle avoidance, IR or CdS for line tracking and a LCD screen and sip/puff sensors for control. The user will be able to sip or puff into a small hose to select options from the LCD screen. Once an option is selected, DMD will follow the track to take the user to his or her destination.

Video

Documents

First Presentation
First Final Report
Progress Report, 2/12/2009
Progress Report 7
Progress Report 8
Progress Report 9

Photos taken on 2/16/2009

The top view shows the old controller, lots of fuses and four speed controllers. Two PWM outputs from controller are split to drive the four 30A speed controllers.

Here's a side view. The wheels were made by glueing plywood together and adding a timing belt for traction. The robot has a lot of pneumatic equipment on it which will be removed.

On the right you can see the two drill motors which drive the rear wheels. The front wheels are driven by two barbie car motors. If I have time I'd like to remove the barbie car motors and just drive DMD using the drill motors.

Here you can see the barbie car motors.

Please honk of parts fall off!