me0065-elderly people helping robot georgia tech usa research project

MECHANICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Motor/Actuator : linear actuator, revolute joints
Body construction material : wood/aluminium/MS/plastic etc.
Dimensions : 300 X350 X 600 mm
Weight : approx 8kg
Transmission : gear/screw thread/string
Payload : light weight
User interface ; speech recognition and synthesis/remote/pc

Extra cost facilities : battery, remote control, image processing

ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

Domain : MECHATRONICS Systems Design

IDE : AVR (Integrated Development Environment)

Programmer/Bootloader : Bootloader

Microcontroller : 8 bit

Power Supply : 230VAC

Display : LED and Audio

Crystal : 11.0592MHz

Reset : RC based integrator circuit.

Printed circuit board : General Purpose Microcontroller Development Board

Advantages ; helpful to aged people, automation of daily tasks, future proof

Programmable machine design

Disadvantages : costly and difficult to make, we have to design our own sensors to

keep the cost low, have to learn

Applications : aged people, handicapped people, Homes, offices, industries etc

Tools required : common hand tools, drilling machine, circular saw, jig saw, angle
grinder, lathe machine, sander, grinder, vice,
Note: Specifications are tentative and may change during design and fabrication process to overcome
problems without any notice.

ABSTRACT

Introduction
For millions of people on a daily basis, motor impairments diminish quality of life, reduce independence,
and increase healthcare costs. Assistive mobile robots that autonomously manipulate objects within
everyday settings have the potential to improve the lives of the elderly, injured, and disabled by
augmenting their abilities with those of a cooperative robot.

Problem statement:
This project is based several IEEE papers published during the past 2 years. Due to ageing population and
scattered families old age people and handicapped people are living without their children lonely at home.
Also due to costly servants and non availability 24 X 7. The need for a robot to assist them in their daily
life is felt across the globe. This is the reason almost all top universities have established research on
service robots to enhance the living conditions of aged people. This problem is more severe in western
countries due to better medical facilities people live longer but unable to perform daily activities without
support from their children..
Proposed solution:
Within this paper we present the simplified version of EL-E (pronounced Ellie), an assistive mobile
manipulator that we are actively developing to help people with motor impairments in everyday tasks
People with motor impairments have consistently placed a high priority on retrieving objects from the
floor and shelves (Stanger et al, 1994), so a robot capable of performing pick and place operations within
human environments would be valuable. Moreover, it could serve as a foundation upon which other forms
of assistance could be built.

Assistive mobile robots that semi autonomously manipulate objects within everyday settings have the
potential to improve the lives of the elderly, injured, and disabled. Within this paper, we present the an
assistive mobile manipulator EL-E Research platform of Georgia tech university USA. the focus is
on the subsystem that enables the robot to retrieve objects from and deliver objects to flat surfaces. Once
provided with voice recognition capability the robot is guided to the location and then either grasps the
nearest object or places an object. We describe our implementation in detail, while highlighting design
principles and themes, including the use of specialized behaviors, task-relevant features, and low-
dimensional representations.
Power supply: This project uses either mains derived supply or battery depending on the requirements.

BLOCK DIAGRAM

16 X 2 Character LCD DISPLAY

Sensor Motor1

Motor
Driver

Motor2
Signal
Conditioner Micro Controller

Motor3
PC interface Motor
Driver

Motor4
Reset circuit

Buzzer
Crystal Driver Buzzer
Oscillator

Block diagram of Micro Controller and sensors

230V AC Step Down Bridge Filter

Supply Transformer rectifier

+5
Mains/battery
V
Regulator Power
+12V
Indicator
Gn
d
Block Diagram Power supply

Bridge rectifier