Automated Road Survey!
Road surveying is still one of the process which include manual labour travelling distances carrying heavy equipment like total station and theodolites. To automate this process an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is built for road surveying.
The user has to input the take-off and landing GPS coordinates, the UAV autonomously flies from take-off point to final point, hovers at regular intervals, take reading using a high end single point LiDAR, and guides itself along the road. The UAV is also incorporated with return to home function, were in, after reaching the final point it flies to the higher altitude and returns back to the take-off point.
This entire process is achieved autonomously without using a remote controller. Camera and Image processing techniques are used for guiding the UAV. The entire project is built on open source software and Raspberry Pi as on board computer.
Smart Print!
Standing in long queues for taking print outs has always been a time consuming work. The Smart Print, developed by D&D SmartLabs, system cuts down the time wasted in long queues. The user at his own comfort, in his own system can do the necessary formatting, select the pages, number of prints and everything and push it to print, the file with all formatting to be printed get store in the cloud, which only the user can access. The user just has to swipe his card at the print station and the file uploaded to print, is printed out.
Worked on the software development part of this prototype, uploading the print file to the cloud and downloading it near the print satiation. The entire prototype is developed using open source libraries, python programming language and Google APIs are used for cloud storage.
Money detection from user’s account based on number of prints can also be implemented in the future.
Sikkha!
Sikkha is an interactive website developed using HTML and basic PHP coding. It was project given by Trinix Technologies during the workshop period.
This website is a dynamic website about my childish hobbies of collecting world currencies. Sign-up and Log-in page is coded using PHP.
Vector!
As everything now is based on Internet of Things (IOT) this 4×4 IOT based RC Car uses a NodeMCU ESP-12E as its primary Control unit. The NodeMCU has an inbuilt Wi-Fi Module -ESP8266-12E which connects to the Wi-Fi Access Point. The connection to Wi-Fi network is established by hard coding the “ssid” and “password”, later stages WiFi scanning is implemented.
The project makes use of an application called “BLYNK”. Blynk is a Platform with iOS and Android apps to control our NodeMCU over the Internet. The blynk app links with your WiFi Network by generating an Authentication code. This Authentication code must be specified in the programme. This programme is then uploaded to the NodeMCU module.
The RC Car consists of four DC motors which are driven by two motor driving circyuits, powered with a low voltage of 5v. The RC Car is Programmed to move in all four directions.