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41 Walmart supportered Project
 Kartik Sanghi
Nikhil Raman
Rohan Singh
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This project aims to replace the existing shopping experience with a new and revolutionary technology by including the new device on every cart. This device would allow the user to keep track of the total cost as and when items are added to the cart. The device will further include functionality that will allow the shoppers to make their payments on the go using a credit card using the integrated payment terminal. In the case of any ambiguity, the shopper will also have the option of going up to the checkout counters. This new system would reduce the long wait times at the checkout counters, increase the efficiency of the checkout procedure, and would provide the shopper with up to date cost and total information which makes the whole experience more convenient.

Amphibious Spherical Explorer

Kaiwen Chen, Junhao Su, Zhong Tan

Amphibious Spherical Explorer

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The amphibious spherical explorer (ASE) is a spherical robot for home monitoring, outdoor adventure or hazardous environment surveillance. Due to the unique shape of the robot, ASE can travel across land, dessert, swamp or even water by itself, or be casted by other devices (e.g. slingshot) to the mission area. ASE has a motion-sensing system based on Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and rotary magnetic encoder, which allows the internal controller to adjust its speed and attitude properly. The well-designed control system makes the robot free of visible wobbliness when it is taking actions like acceleration, deceleration, turning and rest. ASE is also a platform for research on control system design. The parameters of the internal controller can be assigned by an external control panel in computer based on MATLAB Graphic User Interface (GUI) which communicates with the robot via a WiFi network generated by the robot. The response of the robot can be recorded and sent back to the control panel for further analysis. This project is completely open-sourced. People who are interested in the robot can continue this project for more interesting features, such as adding camera for real-time surveillance, or controller design based on machine learning.

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