Duckling
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Overview
The Duckling project will be based around a small car that follows a person around when they are close enough for the duckling's sensors to pick up. It will utilize an xbox kinect and it's motion tracking sensors to detect a person's movement. A raspberry pi will be used to connect the xbox kinect to the car.
Team Members
Patricia Collins
Tushar Menon
Matheus Camacho
Tony Sancho (TA)
Objectives
The duckling project will be deemed a success if the car is able to follow the user via image processing using the kinect. A key challenge will be the programming the car's ability to differentiate between the user's movements and other movements. A successful demonstration of the project would entail a user walking around in an arbitrary path and the car following them. Gantt Chart: Chart showing the project schedule vs. the different tasks that need to be solved. The Gantt chart should roughly indicate the contributions of each team member. See this link to wikipedia's Gantt Chart article for more information.
Challenges
We expect our challenges to include: completing our project under budget, getting the kinect to work with the raspberry pi, learning raspberry pi, and working with the kinect image processing.
Main challenges that need to be addressed by the team to complete the project. Besides describing your personal challenges (e.g., learn a new computer language, design a complex circuit, etc.), you should also describe how you will address issues such as: privacy considerations user safety security from malicious attacks operation cost etc.
Gantt Chart
Chart showing the project schedule vs. the different tasks that need to be solved. The Gantt chart should roughly indicate the contributions of each team member. See this link to wikipedia's Gantt Chart article for more information.
Budget
Arduino (free)
Raspberry Pi (free/$35)
Robot car ($100)
Xbox kinect(Used) ($10-$50)
List of items to be purchased, including exact price and provider. General items, such as "cables", are not allowed, you must identify exactly which cable do you need to purchase.
