The Wandering Campus Ambassador projects will 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, CCIS 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 Navigation Plant Platform

Project Number

P10216

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

Team Members :

• Maha Alam Team Lead
• Corey Provencher Technical Lead
• Alan Olson
• Marcus Gwillim
• Nicolas Bouret

Project PRP

Team Agreement

Customer Needs

Engineering Specifications

Concept Development

Concept Improvement

System Architecture Concept Screening

Sensor Positioning Guide

Organization Chart

Project Plan

Sensor Comparative Study

Week 3 Feedback

Risk Management

Navigation Behavior Diagram

Purchase Requests

Weekly Status Reports

Identify Customer Needs

Establish Target Specifications

Generate Product Concepts

Select Product Concept(s)

Test Product Concept(s)

Set Final Specifications

Concept Design

Detailed Design Review Documents (MSD I)

Managerial Design Review Presentation (MSD I)

Technical Conference Publication (MSD II)

Poster Publication (MSD II)

Managerial Design Review Presentation (MSD II)

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