Abstract:
This design project is designed to produce a working prototype of a small reconnaissance robot. It is designed to meet the needs of the now-defunct HeliOS project’s sub-vehicle. The robot must meet several requirements, among them small size, low weight, image capturing ability, autonomous operation, and durability. The principal challenge of the project is balancing all of these requirements in an effective solution. This paper marks out all matters relating to the proposed project. This begins with a review of the project’s history before discussing its general outlines. Following that is a listing of its overall problems, followed by a more complete catalogue of its specific problems. After that, the report presents potential solutions to those problems. Also included in this proposal are budgets, timelines and a summary of the whole project as proposed. On the whole, the construction of this robot should provide sufficient challenge so as to qualify as a Senior Design project. If it later turns out that it does not, then this project is scaleable to the point where it becomes a worthy challenge again.