PRE2018 3 Group5

General info

Group members

Name	Student ID
Ruben Haakman	0993994
Stan Latten	1257196
Tom Mulders	1008890
Jasper Stam	1006240
Mathijs Vastenhouw	1269496

Problem

To keep residential areas clean and neat, lots of tools are used. Most of the tools are operated by humans, but some new tools can do some tasks autonomous. Can't this be done by one autonomous robot? We think the most common tasks can be performed by an autonomous robot.

To keep city centers clean and neat, there are people that collect trash. They are just picking up the trash, they see. Trash is in many cases underneath the benches, because it is the most common place to eat for people. If there are people on the bench, then the people that are collecting the trash have to do a big job to get to the trash underneath the benches and in some cases the people sitting on the bench have to stand up or lift their legs to enable the trash collector to pick up the trash. A robot can be compacter. It can be in most cases come under the bench without bothering people.

Problem statement

How can tasks of maintaining residential areas be combined into one (modular) robot?

Objectives

• The system must have the ability to do tasks, like lawn mowing and trash picking
• The system must be able to go autonomous to the place, where the task has to be performed
• The system has to give a warning to the owner in case of technical disorder
• The system has to ask for help of human if needed

Users and other stakeholders

• Municipalities: responsible to maintain the residential area
• Citizens: clean and safe neighborhood
• People that are maintaining the neighborhood: can focus on other tasks, that currently would not be done
• Society as a whole
• Enterprises that specialize in maintenance of public grounds

Project setup

Approach

After reviewing the literature, we will determine the requirements for the robot. Based on these requirements we will design a robot to maintain the sidewalks, which will include a detailed physical design and a design of the software running the robot. We will analyse the effects of the use of the robot on the stakeholders and determine the costs of building, deploying and maintaining the robot. The design process will be iterative and each cycle ends with a prototype, which we will analyse and improve if needed.

Milestones

• State-of-the-art analysis
• Requirements Document
• Design Documents
• Use analysis
• Prototype (1)
• Analysis of prototype (1)
• Updated requirements and design
• Prototype (2)
• Cost analysis

Deliverables

• Requirements document
• Design document
• Use analysis
• Cost analysis
• Prototypes (2)

Who's doing what

• Ruben: Design(electronics), cost analysis, prototype.
• Stan: Design(general), Requirements, Use analysis, prototype.
• Tom: Design(general), Requirements, Use analysis, prototype.
• Jasper: Design(software), STOA analysis, Requirements, Use analysis.
• Mathijs: Design(general), STOA analysis, cost analysis, prototype.

State of the art

The literature study can be found on the page State of the art

Planning

For each week, there are points what we plan to do in that week. Planning can change over the weeks, dependent on the progress in the project. Final versions of the documents will be delivered at the end of the quartile, but concept versions will be delivered earlier.

Week 1

• Introduction to course
• Brainstorming about problem
• Make problem statement
• First idea on plan for project
• Literature study on problem

Week 2

• Updated problem description
• Concrete planning for project
• Make plan more clear with introduction
• Analysis of literature found in week 1
• First idea on requirements
• Start on USE stakeholder analysis

Week 3

• Concrete decisions on prototype
• USE stakeholder analysis
• Make requirements ready to start on prototype
• Start on prototype

Week 4-6

• Work on prototype
• Analysis of requirements based on prototype and update if needed
• Analysis of decisions made for prototype and update if needed
• Update other documents if needed

Week 7

• Finalize prototype
• Prepare presentation

Week 8

• Presentation

To Do

ToDo group 5