Phase 1: CIRCUIT

01: Left Wheel motor
02: Right Wheel Motor
03: Arm Motor
04: Grip Motor
05: Motor Driver Circuit
06: BBB Rev C
07: Acceleromter (Not necessary)
08: Logic level Sifter
09: PIC16F877A
10: USB HUB
11:Web Cam

                      The image from webcam is fed to BBB . It process the image and out data to PIC. PIC will control the motors corresponding to the data. The feed-backs are also fed to PIC to analyse the current position of arm and grip of ROBOT.

                      Through this project, we are aiming more into image processing in embedded devices and platforms. This will enhance the mobility of the robot by reducing the hardware necessary for image processing using traditional methods.  Open CV or Open Computer Vision is a special kind of library developed in these days. This library is a cross-platform. It focusses mainly on real time image processing. If the library finds Intel’s integrated performance primitives on the system, it will use these proprietary optimized routines to accelerate itself.  The library will work on almost all OS like Windows7, Windows8, Android, Ubuntu, Debian etc. Since Open CV is light weight and can run in embedded platforms, our project aims to bring the image processing into new levels and will help to innovate more and bring more idea. Our project aims to make a mobile robot. The robot can process image in real time and can take decisions by itself. An arm is attached to the robot so that it can move, pick or place objects. This type of robots can be used to pick objects in Mars or other planet where data sending take ages.  It can also be used in military field for bomb diffusion.   

                       Since our project is a Standalone robot which can be used terrestrially and is able to process image at real time, we named our project as STI-RO, which is Standalone Terrestrial   Image processing Robot.