The problem EM_BOT solves

Problem Statement: There is a need to design drones and robots that can solve some of the pressing challenges of India such as handling medical emergencies, search and rescue operations and disaster management. weare taking it to the next level by making it helpful for covid-19 and other pandemics as well as home security.

We, at team <ASTUTE BOTS> are here to resolve or at least try to come to an approach for solving this problem faced by the public up to an extent. We here are trying to solve a global scale problem of the pandemic.

Astute Bots is working on a prototyped solution which can be used to abide by the working force during the pandemic like the medical staff or the police task force. We believe that “Robots” (Drones/Rovers )can be a game-changer for fighting coronavirus, by facilitating spraying disinfectants in hospitals and public places like railway stations & bus stands where involvement of people increases the risks of getting infected from COVID-19. Our solution can be used to keep the people off the streets during this global lockdown. The robots are enabled to perform multiple tasks which should be done during this lockdown. Activities like informing people about the lockdown, which is to spread awareness, spraying disinfectant sprays in the urban and the rural areas or the inaccessible areas.

Thermal cameras combined with image recognition algorithms are being implemented in our prototyped solution. Trying to incorporate them into mobile robots or drones could greatly expand the coverage of screening programs. The website frontend is html/ css, JavaScript while the backend servers use http requests, flutter app development and the IBM blockchain platform, Predictive analysis of next covid-19 outbreak region using TensorFlow and google maps api.

We believe that this rover can be a game changer in home security too. It would be just like a pet who will respond to each and every command while having the capabilities to sense fires, gas leaks

Challenges we ran into

1.Integrating IBM cloud-based API for object detection was one of the challenges, it was harder due to the unstable wifi connection.

2.Controlling gpio pins of rover using HTML tags was difficult this was overcome by defining gpio pins and functions in separate files.

3. Getting a hold of many parts was impossible due to the pandemic.

4. Network issues were at their peaks and no one could do their work properly.

5. It was a very hard job to get it to climb stairs but it has been implemented now.

We rose above all of this by focusing on the main components which we needed to make it work and then we tried our best to keep it user friendly.