1. ECE 477 Digital Systems Senior Design Project  Fall 2005
Team T.R.A.P.
Trash Removing Autonomous Predator
Block Diagram
What is the T.R.A.P. Project ?
T.R.A.P. is an autonomous vehicle designed to automatically identify and pick up red cans, while it traverses an area of a user designated size. If the identified object is not a red can it will avoid it, while staying in the designated area. The robot moves autonomously until it covers all of the designated area.
PSSC 1
Ability to identify empty, red aluminum cans for pickup
PSSC 2
Ability to pickup up identified object(s)
PSSC 5
Ability to set operation mode using a keypad and display system status using an LCD display
PSSC 3
Ability to automatically traverse the pickup zone, a rectangular grid
Aluminum
Shovel/Arm Mechanism
(able to pick up cans in any orientation)
Rear Ultrasonic Sensor (able to identify when the basket is full)
Camera
Compass module (allows the Vehicle to accurately traverse the pickup zone)
PSSC 4
Ability to detect a “basket full” condition
Digijock(ette)-Strength Digital System DesignTM