Abstract:
At the turn of the millennium, the number of elderly and disabled in need of care is increasing dramatically. Currently, the services provided to the elderly and disabled in most public institutions are unsatisfactory; this is largely because of their dependence on human assistance and costs. One obvious area that needs immediate attention is transportation in public areas like airport terminals, hospitals, museums, office buildings etc.
Robotic technology is going through major revolutions. Sparked by a dramatic increase of computation and the substantial decrease in costs of major sensor technologies (e.g. cameras), the goal of intelligent service robots that can assist people in their daily living activities is closer than ever.
In this thesis a low cost mobile robotic platform was built to transport the elderly and disabled people from one point to another. Software such as code vision and protus7.7 was used in programming and simulating the circuit of the robot.
