Human Following Object Carrier

The project revolves around creating a carrier that can carry any object ranging from 3 to 5 kilograms and follow the owner of the carier ideally by means of detecing the posture of the owner (Human) using Digital Image Processing/Kinect Technology or simply by bluetooth connectivity (alternati

Project Title

Human Following Object Carrier

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

The project revolves around creating a carrier that can carry any object ranging from 3 to 5 kilograms and follow the owner of the carier ideally by means of detecing the posture of the owner (Human) using Digital Image Processing/Kinect Technology or simply by bluetooth connectivity (alternative). The goal is to make life easier by making such a carrier that can carry things such as bags, groceries etc. The target audience ranging from students to senior citizens.

Project Objectives

1. To solve heavy object carrier problem by making use of convenient tools for human detection and trail such as bluetooth, sensors and/or kinect technology.
2. To make an inexpensive carrier available for the general population.
3. To provide ease and affordability to everyone ranging from students to senior citizens.

Project Implementation Method

The project has 3 main implementation areas:

1. To detect back of human body or a device for tracking and following the owner.
2. To provide access and security via facial recognition or biometrics.
3. To create a carrier with wheels that has all the required hardware incorporated and space for keeping objects on it.

To implement the first area, Kinect technology, ROS (Robot operating system and/or bluetooth module or biometric equipement will be used. The kinect technoloy detectes and tracks key 48 points of a human body to understand its movement. It would be used to send data of the human body's movement to a single board computer/microcontroller (Raspberry PI/Arduino UNO) to process and make the carrier follow the owner. If this fails, we would go for our alternate; bluetooth module  that would connect the owner's smartphone and the carrier and would enable the carrier to follow the human.

For the second area, we would make use of Blynk Mobile Application used for IoT projects to provide facial recognition, connection and data sharing with the hardware carrier. Alternatively, we would use biometric technology.

For the last area, we would connect different hardware components such as sensors, motors, tires and wooden grilled base for the carrier to carry objects.

Benefits of the Project

The beneifts of the project are as under:

1. Inexpensive object carrier to carry objects and provide ease to the general population.
2. No need to worry about carrying or dragging things. The carrier would follow the owner.
3. Little chance of forgetting or losing  things as the carrier would follow the owner.
4. less arm, shoudler, back strain as the objects to be carried would be on the carrier.
5. Focus on what is important rather than worrying of the things that a person carries..

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Final deliverables would include a hardware carrier robot and/or Blynk free mobile application to be downloaded and installed.

The final carrier would have empty space on top to place objects. 3 to 4 tires at the bottom and a concealed box in the middle that has hardware equipment connecting the whole robot. there would be two sections on the top of the carrier; one would be where objects are to be placed and the other would have Kinect device placed on it.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT)

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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