Quadruped Spider: The Surveillance Robot
It is a compact size robot designed to work under multiple niches such as a surveillance robot, a disaster management robot, a hobby robot i.e., as pets and many more.
Created on 30th March 2024
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Quadruped Spider: The Surveillance Robot
It is a compact size robot designed to work under multiple niches such as a surveillance robot, a disaster management robot, a hobby robot i.e., as pets and many more.
The problem Quadruped Spider: The Surveillance Robot solves
Home Security: Patrol home, monitor for intruders, receive alerts, view live video feed remotely.
Exploration: Explore outdoor environments, caves, forests, disaster zones.
Education: Teach robotics, programming, electronics; control robot, gather sensor data, analyze environment.
Search and Rescue: Locate missing persons, assess disaster areas; navigate rough terrain, transmit live video feed.
Monitoring: Monitor facilities, construction sites, wildlife; provide real-time updates on environment.
Entertainment: Create interactive experiences, games; unique design, engaging capabilities.
Research: Study animal behavior, collect environmental data, test new robotic technologies.
Challenges I ran into
The most common and tough challenge I faced lies in it movement code. It took over a month for me to understand gait movements and to design a code with help of inverse kinematics in Arduino IDE. Another challenge was to design it casing, this is to important if you are making a bot that have to balance itself while holding weights on it. This robot is the very starting prototype that we build it is on it initial stage, We haven't used more resources on this, it is made under the budget of 6,000 INR but pretty much well performed in it execution. Some error also arises from the Pi Zero W side were it is not able to communicate to mic and arduino, sometime the code heat up the controller to such a level that it started malfunctioning, also we have added picovoice function to recognize and execute the voice commands but as it is updated and there is no self help tutorials of this function available on web it become hard to use and implement it it on our project. But at end we succeeded by completing the project with zero errors in just 2 months.
