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Introduction

AnDro.bot (a.k.a. The Scorpius Rover Project is a multi-featured rover ( "Rover stems from middle English roven, which means to move around, stray." - Wikipedia). It combines the powers of the cloud, Android and any micro-controller controlled hardware to create a software-hardware system that attempts to address several current problems in robotics, including, among other things, line-following, AGV, voice control & synthesis, remote surveillance, motion & obstacle detection, face detection, remote live image streaming and remote photography in panorama & time-lapse mode. The rover, built upon a portable multi-layered architecture, will use several mature and a few experimental algorithms in AI, Computer Vision, Robot Kinetics and Dynamics 'behind-the-scene' to provide its prospective user in defense, entertainment or industrial sector a positive user experience. A minimal amount of security is achieved via. a handshake using MD5, SHA1 and AES. It can even integrate with a Twitter account for autonomous social networking.

Features

Scorpius solves several problems in robotics and remote photography. The problems are divided into two groups and enumerated below.

Problems in Robotics

• Automated Guided Vehicle
• Face Detection
• Human-User Interaction
• Line Following
• Motion and Object Detection
• Voice Recognition and Synthesis

Problems in Photography

• Remote Surveillance
• Time Lapse Photography
• Panoramic Photography

Requirements

Software

On-board

• Android 2.3.3+
• Micro-controller based robot hardware

User Interface

• Any OS with Internet connectivity and a HTML5 & JQuery compatible browser.

Languages

• HTML5 & CSS3
• JavaScript & JQuery
• Python
• Java
• C

Extra Libraries / Modules

• JQuery
• Pixastic
• Crypto
• openCV
• Twitter APIs
• Standard Java Libraries

Hardware

On-board

• Samsung GT-S7500 Galaxy Ace Plus
• Micro-controller
• Motor Shield
• 2 x DC Motors

User-Interface

• Any device with Internet connectivity and a HTML5 & JQuery compatible browser

Team Scorpius

Scorpius is being developed, assembled and tested by the following people in various roles:

• Syed Ibtisam Tauhidi
• Chandan Kumar
• Dhiman Sen
• Rahul Singh