The Wandering Campus Ambassador projects will be develop a robot like system to raise awareness of self-sustaining energy and showcase student's creative and technical abilities. The idea is to create curiosity through a robot like device with a living, growing and self-sustaining plant. It will wander around in a nice, slow, autonomous fashion, searching out the best sun, water, fellow plants and friendly passers-by. Act as a great (yet very quiet) spokesperson/plant for the KGCOE MSD, CC&IS Software Engineering Senior Projects, CIAS Industrial Design Senior Projects and even the new sustainability programs being created at RIT. Just think what a great news story or you-tube episode it would make. If you think along the environmentally friendly side a little, you could consider some replenishable power sources for both the robotic-like device and its plant which is not only along-for-the-ride but may guide the robotics autonomous decisions in search of being able to sustain the plant (i.e. water, sun, temperature, food).

Project Name

Robot Locomotion and Plant Platform

Project Number

P10215

Track

Vehicle/ Robotics

Start Term

2009-1

End Term

2009-2

Faculty Guide

Prof. George Slack

Primary Customer Team

Prof. George Slack, Prof. Stan Rickel, Dr. Daniel Phillips. Funding: RIT Provost's Learning Innovations Grant

Project Readiness Package

Team_Organization_and_Administration

Customer Needs

Engineering Specifications

Risk Assessment

Project Plan Summary

MSD 1 Task Timeline

Detailed Design Plan

MSD 2 Task Timeline

Test Plans

System Sketches

Design_Review_Preparation

Identify Customer Needs

Establish Target Specifications

Generate Product Concepts

Select Product Concept(s)

Test Product Concept(s)

Set Final Specifications

Preliminary Design Review Material

Reference_Images

Concept Design Review Documents (SD I)

Detailed Design Review Documents (SD I)

Managerial Design Review Presentation (SD I)

Technical Conference Publication (SD II)

Poster Publication (SD II)

Managerial Design Review Presentation (SD II)

Photo Gallery