Robo Road Crossing Assistant
Approximately, 1.35 million people die every year due to road accidents. More than half of these road accidents are the accidents caused by road crossing.[WHO] In this machinery world, robots are being used as traffic police and traffic warden. This development is still ignoring the safety of p
2025-06-28 16:34:50 - Adil Khan
Robo Road Crossing Assistant
Project Area of Specialization RoboticsProject SummaryApproximately, 1.35 million people die every year due to road accidents. More than half of these road accidents are the accidents caused by road crossing.[WHO] In this machinery world, robots are being used as traffic police and traffic warden. This development is still ignoring the safety of pedestrians who face many difficulties while crossing the road.
To solve these difficulties, we are developing a robotic system (Robo Road Crossing Assistant) to make the road crossing easier and safer.
The robotic system will assist people to cross the road in a safe manner by stretching its hands, moving with the pedestrians/road crossing people and displaying red signal and some kind of message to the coming traffic side.
Project ObjectivesRobo RC (Road Crossing) assistant will be developed for the following objectives:
- Assisting people to cross the road easily and safely
- Educating people about traffic rules and road safety measures
- Object recognition (collision avoidance) & computer vision system for later analysis
- Scalability purpose (secondary) as a medium of advertisement (Use of Display)
Project Implementation consists of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to develop this robotic system. SDLC will comprise of following steps:
1. Research and Design
First of all, information related to the project will be gathered. This information will vary from project to project. Different kind of project related to this project will be analyzed. In this step, we will accomplish following objectives.
- What are the practical functions of design?
The practical functions of design are the movement of the robot, detection of objects within its environment, power supply source for the robot, sensing (sensors) feature for robot.
- What is the shape design for the robot?
Shape design is important for aesthetic qualities, ergonomics, strength, stability, rigidity, safety.
- What are the construction methods suitable for design?
Construction techniques consist of cutting, shaping, assembly of parts using screws, bolts, glues, solder etc.
2. Development
Development phase consist of following steps:
Body of Robot:
The body of robot consists of six wheeled base, upper body with two hands and a head with brain (microcontroller) and vision (Computer vision) for robot.
Development of Circuit Diagram:
A circuit Diagram will be created to configure the electronic parts such as sensors, microcontroller, motors, led lights and camera etc.
Installation and Configuration of internal and external components for Robot Body
Once the circuit diagram has been created, installation and configuration of internal and external components will be accomplished..
Six Wheeled Robotic base:
Six wheeled robotic base is the lower body part of the robot. It will be responsible for movement of the robot. A battery source and gear motors will be used to drive the six wheels.
Microwave radar sensors will be used on robotic base to measure the distance of vehicles on the road from the robot.
Upper Body of the robot:
Upper body of the robot consists of LCD (for displaying messages, traffic rules, advertisement) on the chest of the robot. Two hands joint will be given motion through servo motors.
Head (brain) of robot:
This is the main part of the robot. It consists of a microcontroller (Arduino, Raspberry pi). The robot will be given vision by a camera as its eyes.
Programming the robot:
The robot will be programmed using C and C++ with the help of integrated development environment (IDE) such as Arduino IDE.
Development of Speech Recognition App:
The robot will be able to understand the voice commands. To make this happen, a speech recognition app will be developed.
3. Testing
After developing the robot, the robot will be tested in real world. Different testing scenarios will be taken under consideration to verify and validate the full functionality of the robot.
4. Deployment
The robotic system will be deployed to its environment (on roads, in front of shopping malls, hospitals, educational institutions etc.)
Benefits of the ProjectThe robotic system will ensure the safety of humans as well as the education of the people about the traffic rules and safety measures while they are on the road.
- The robot will assist people to cross the road in a safe manner by stretching its hands, moving with the pedestrians/road crossing people and displaying red signal and some kind of message to the coming traffic side.
- This system can be used as an alternative to traffic signal system.
- The robot will educate people about traffic rules, road safety measures etc.
- The market scope of this robotic system will comprise of educational institutions, shopping malls, hospitals, traffic signals etc.
- The robot will be able to perform face recognition and save it in the database over the cloud for later analysis.
- The robot will provide speech recognition feature to make the communication with robot easy.
- The robot would be used as a mean of advertisement.
- The robot will have an autonomous driving feature.
1. A Robotic System equipped with software:
final prototype will be a working robotic system that will be capble of assisting the people while they cross the road. Whole functionalities of the system will be controlled by the microcontroller which will be programmed.
2. A database connected with the system (IoT enablement)
All sensors data will be stored over the cloud. This data would be used for later analysis.
3. Speech recognition App
In order to communicate with the system easily, a speech recognition app will be developed.
Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry OthersOther Industries Education , Security Core Technology RoboticsOther Technologies Internet of Things (IoT)Sustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for People, Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources| Item Name | Type | No. of Units | Per Unit Cost (in Rs) | Total (in Rs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in (Rs) | 76460 | |||
| System body + robotic hand and arms + elbows | Equipment | 1 | 5736 | 5736 |
| battery | Equipment | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Two set of Motors + Set of eight servo motors + set of four pan & tilt servo b | Equipment | 1 | 10800 | 10800 |
| charger | Equipment | 1 | 850 | 850 |
| Wheel caster | Equipment | 4 | 95 | 380 |
| Robot wheels | Equipment | 4 | 200 | 800 |
| Set of two Microcontroller + pixy image sensor camera + Quad core smart machine | Equipment | 1 | 25570 | 25570 |
| PIR Motion Sensor + Lidar Range Finder sensor + Set of twelve Ultrasonic distanc | Equipment | 1 | 11240 | 11240 |
| Bluetooth Module | Equipment | 1 | 430 | 430 |
| Breadboard + Arduino Ethernet shield + Set of eight sockets | Equipment | 1 | 1005 | 1005 |
| Robot costume + stationery | Miscellaneous | 1 | 7500 | 7500 |
| Raspberry Pi | Equipment | 1 | 7300 | 7300 |
| Pipe for prototype | Equipment | 1 | 979 | 979 |
| Nuts + bolts + screws | Equipment | 1 | 380 | 380 |
| pipe bends | Equipment | 2 | 225 | 450 |
| Foundary Work (Welding) | Equipment | 1 | 1540 | 1540 |