We are happy that by Amma’s grace, HuT Labs successfully hosted 50 continuous weeks of research webinars. As part of the 50 Successful Weeks Celebrations, we have multiple events starting from 4.00pm – 6.00pm on 05 Feb 2022. All are welcome to be part of the event. The events include:
The team VIJAYANTA from HuT Labs won the Best-In-Class Dexterity Award under the Standard Disaster Robotics Challenge of Disaster Robotics Category held as part of World Robot Summit (WRS 2021), Tokyo, Japan. There were a total of 10 teams from all over the world which qualified for the finals. The summit was supposed to be held in Jul-Aug 2020. Due to pandemic, it got postponed to 2021 and we participated remotely.
Team: Anandu R, Shree Rajesh Raagul V, Ragavendra B M, Siddharth B, Sakthiprasad K M, Sreekanth M M, Mahendran J, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam
By Amma’s grace and support, HuT Labs designs SUDHA, the first service robot in India for home and super market applications.
SUDHA team with our VC, Dr. Venkat Rangan
Team Members: Sree Rajesh Ragul, Anandu R, Sakthiprasad K M, Sreekanth MM, Aravind Prakash, Mahendran J and Dr. Rajesh Kannan Megalingam
Some important tasks that SUDHA can perform:
By Amma’s grace, the team VIJAYANTA from HuT Labs won the Best-In-Class Dexterity Award under the Standard Disaster Robotics Challenge of Disaster Robotics Category held as part of World Robot Summit (WRS 2021), Tokyo, Japan. There were a total of 10 teams from all over the world which qualified for the finals. The summit was supposed to be held in Jul-Aug 2020. Due to pandemic, it got postponed to 2021 and we participated remotely.
Team: Anandu R, Shree Rajesh Raagul V, Ragavendra B M, Siddharth B, Sakthiprasad K M, Sreekanth M M, Mahendran J, Rajesh Kannan Megalingam
HuT Labs is extremely happy to share that, with Amma’s grace and hard work of BTech students and researchers at HuT Labs, another paper titled, “Evaluation of Human Intervention Based Hybrid Approach for Position and Depth Estimation with Error Correction” got accepted for publication by the IEEE journal ”Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Journal canadien de génie électrique et informatique” with an impact factor 1.53.
The paper was part of the BTech ECE 2018 batch. After they passed out, it took three more years of multiple rejections and revisions before it got accepted by the IEEE journal.
Paper Title: Evaluation of Human Intervention Based Hybrid Approach for Position and Depth Estimation with Error Correction
Journal Title: IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Journal canadien de génie électrique et informatique.
Authors List: Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Ashwin Kashyap Nellutla, Sriteja Gone, Sakthiprasad Kuttankulangara Manoharan, Sreekanth Makkal Mohandas, Shree Rajesh Raagul Vadivel, and Chennareddy Pavanth Kumar Reddy.
Special thanks to Gopalaiengar Sheshadri sir for helping us with the internal review and editing the paper.
By Amma’s grace, 15 student researchers from HuT Labs, ECE have got admissions for various master’s programs in multiple reputed universities across USA. Following is the list of students and the universities they have chosen to join as of now while waiting for results of their masters applications in better ranked universities.
Congratulations all! You have made HuT Labs and Amrita proud! May Amma bless you with all health and wealth in life.
HuT Labs is happy to announce the successful completion of 25 Webinars during pandemic. And we are not stopping. The uniqueness of these webinars is that all webinars are conducted by Amritapuri campus, ECE, HuT Labs alumni!
Udbodh 2021 – Celebrating 25 successful webinars on Oct 24!
We will be honoring all the speakers of the webinars during Udbodh 2021. We also have multiple events planned for the celebrations. Details will be shared soon.
IEEE Student Branch, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus in coordination with HuT Labs is hosting the fifth international symposium ISEE 2021 (IEEE International Symposium on Education, Technology, and Entrepreneurship) on Aug 28, 2021.
When India celebrates the Gold Medal win at Olympics by Neeraj Chopra in javelin throw, Amrita can celebrate for winning three prizes in the International Design Contest (IDC 2021) Robocon held online at Tokyo Tech University, Tokyo, Japan. Incidentally the Olympics is also going on in Japan.
Take a moment to congratulate the Amrita heroes who won the prizes and other students who were part of the finals.
The competition was held for two weeks online due to pandemic, from Jul 26 to Aug 7, 2021. 11 students from HuT Labs, ECE, were fortunate enough to get into the finals of IDC2021. There were 13 teams in the finals. Students from HuT Labs have won first prizes consecutively in the year 2018 (TokyoTech, Japan) and 2019 (MIT, USA) in IDC2018 and IDC2019. The competition is based on invitation only and is extended to only one top university of 15 countries including Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, France, Brazil, Mexico, India etc. This year students from 8 countries took part in the competition.
IEEE Student Branch, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus in coordination with HuT Labs is hosting the fifth international symposium ISEE 2021 (IEEE International Symposium on Education, Technology, and Entrepreneurship) on Aug 28, 2021.
By Amma’s grace, 11 students from HuT Labs, ECE, Amritapuri Campus, got into the finals of the IDC2021 (International Design Contest 2021) Robocon, one of the esteemed robotic competitions, to be held at TokyoTech University, Tokyo, Japan. The competition will be held for two weeks online due to pandemic, from Jul 26 to Aug 7, 2021.
Following 11 students are fortunate enough to get into the finals of IDC2021.
Students from HuT Labs have won first prizes consecutively in the year 2018 (TokyoTech, Japan) and 2019 (MIT, USA) in IDC2018 and IDC2019. The competition is based on invitation only and is extended to only one top university of 15 countries including Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, France, Brazil, Mexico, India etc. This year students from 8 countries are taking part in the competition.
By Amma’s grace, HuT Labs is celebrating the successful 25th week of Research@Lunch on July 31, 2021. Research@Lunch is a research webinar series as part of research initiative of HuT Labs exclusively for PhD scholars, PG and UG researchers all over India.
Find the details of PhD Thesis Presentation by Dr. Sai Manoj Prakhya, R&D Robotics, Stryker, Germany.
By Amma’s grace, HuT Labs is celebrating the successful 25th week of Research@Lunch on July 31, 2021. Research@Lunch is a research webinar series as part of research initiative of HuT Labs exclusively for PhD scholars, PG and UG researchers all over India.
Here is the details of Panel Discussion by PhD Scholars.
By Amma’s grace, HuT Labs in collaboration with Megara Robotics, Chennai, (http://megararobotics.com/) successfully built the first product, Prabha – IoT Based UV Sanitizer Robot and delivered two of them to Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri campus on Mar 22, 2021. HuT Labs developed the first successful prototype Prabha in June 2020 as per Amma’s instructions to develop projects for COVID pandemic cause.
Watch on youtube: Prabha – UV Disinfectant Robot
Product descritption: Prabha, IOT based UV sanitizer robot has UV lamps that can be switched on/off remotely. With 3 UV lamps of 36 W each, Prabha can disinfect a room of 10 cubic meter space in less than 15 minutes. It can be used to disinfect living rooms, class rooms, office rooms, hospital wards where patients of communicable diseases were present; can be used to disinfect restrooms; medical equipment etc. It comes with a cheap price of Rs 13500/- only.
By Amma’s grace, the team Paricharya of HuT Labs, ECE, successfully built and configured Chetak, the service robot. Now Chetak can stack and dispose stock, help and interact with users and also can clean commode.
By Amma’s grace, the project NEPHO – A Tele-operated Wheelchair with Negative Isolation Hood by HuT Labs, ECE won the runner-up prize at the Medical Robotics For Contagious Diseases Challenge 2020, organized by UKRAS Network, UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Network based in United Kingdom. The project was designed to transport COVID patients safely and to avoid spreading of virus in the environment. The project was funded by IEEE SIGHT.
This unique challenge attracted 21 entries from 13 countries – Bangladesh, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Pakistan, Uganda, UK and USA – and the winners were decided, from a shortlist of 17 exceptional submissions, by a prestigious judging panel, including Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, Co-Director of IGHI, Professor of Surgery at Imperial College London, UK; Simon Di Maio, Director, Research at Intuitive Surgical, USA; Prof. Russell H. Taylor, John C. Malone Professor at John’s Hopkins University, USA; and Dr. Thomas Neff, Manager Software Medical Robotics at KUKA Deutschland GmbH, De.
I am very much honored to receive the prestigious IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award 2020 yesterday (Oct 23), from the IEEE President 2020, Dr. Toshio Fukuda in a grand event at the flagship conference of IEEE Education Society, Frontiers In Education (FIE 2020), going on in Sweden. I also delivered a Keynote Address on “Undergraduate Mentoring and Research at HuT Labs, A Case Study”, on this occasion. https://www.fie2020.org/keynote-speakers/
I offer this award at the lotus feet of my beloved Amma, Satguru Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi.
My heart felt thanks to all my students without whom I would have not received this award. I also take this opportunity again to thank for the continued support from Br. Devidasa Chaitanya, the Director, Dr. Bala, the Associate Dean, Dr. S. N. Jyothi, the Principal, Dr. Ravisankar, HoD, ECE and Dr. Sundar, past HOD, ECE. I would also like to thank all the staff of ECE department and all other departments for their continued support.
We are extremely happy to announce that, by Amma’s grace and blessings, HuT Lab develops the first Tele-operated Wheelchair with Negative Pressure Isolation Hood to carry COVID patients, in India. Thanks to Dr. Sundeep from AIMS for his support and help through out this project. This project is funded by IEEE HAC & SIGHT.
COVID patients can be seated on the wheelchair covered by the negative pressure isolation hood and the operator/caretaker can use the teleoperation control method and operate the wheelchair from a safe distance of up to 4 meters without the need to touch the wheelchair. The negative pressure isolation hood using a HEPA filter was developed and integrated into this powered wheelchair. The negative pressure isolation not only prevents the spread of pathogenic microorganisms but also permits rapid and flexible isolation transport. The air discharged from ventilation is through HEPA filters and is purified to ensure no harmful pathogens are spreading out.
Watch on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBf9ViuQyto&feature=youtu.be
By Ammas grace, our team Na-Sarathy of HuT Labs, ECE, got world rank #2 in the IAC Social Medial Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to engage teams in maximizing the visibility of the IAC and participating teams on social media. In total 30 teams all over the world from top universities participated in this challenge.
Our Social Media Links:
https://instagram.com/na_sarathy?igshid=1l8n8zygc9yls
https://www.linkedin.com/company/na-sarathy
https://www.facebook.com/NaSarathy/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NaSarathy/
Led by Energy Systems Network (ESN), an Indianapolis-based non-profit and a branded initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and CICP Foundation, Inc. (CICP Foundation), working in close collaboration with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), the Indy Autonomous Challenge is a broadly collaborative effort that brings together public, private and academic institutions to challenge university students around the world to imagine, invent and prove a new generation of automated vehicle software and inspire the next generation of STEM talent.
By Ammas grace, our team Na-Sarathy of HuT Labs, ECE, got 12th position in the recently concluded Hackathon (from Sep 12 – 19) conducted Indy Autonomous Car challenge. In total 30 teams all over the world from top universities participated in this Hackathon. Only two teams from India took part in this, Na-Sarathy and a team from IIT, Chennai. Many top universities couldn’t even complete the tasks given in the Hackathon. Only 19/30 teams submitted the completed tasks. IIT Chennai team couldn’t event complete the tasks. Our team surpassed top universities like University of Wisconsin, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburg,Colorado State Unversity, etc. Note that, only third and final year BTech students of ECE dept. from HuT Labs worked for this event unlike the other teams which consists of masters, PhD students and industry partners.
Led by Energy Systems Network (ESN), an Indianapolis-based non-profit and a branded initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and CICP Foundation, Inc. (CICP Foundation), working in close collaboration with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), the Indy Autonomous Challenge is a broadly collaborative effort that brings together public, private and academic institutions to challenge university students around the world to imagine, invent and prove a new generation of automated vehicle software and inspire the next generation of STEM talent.
Dear all,
For the past few weeks we were working with several robotic projects at HuT Labs with initiation and blessings from Amma, our university Chancellor for using during COVID situation. Thanks to Shankar sir, Dhanajay, Akhil Raj, Anandu, Arun and Sreelal at HuT Labs. Without their support and help we couldn’t have achieved this. Thanks to Br. Sreevalsan who arranged for GAD help.
ANNAPOORNA: This remotely operated robot using WiFi can serve food, water and medicine to patients in isolated wards. It also has tele-medicine facility and enables patients in isolated wards to interact with doctors/nurses remotely. Will be very useful for front line workers who supply food, water and medicine to the patients during pandemic/epidemic in hospitals.
PRABHA: Fitted with a siren for safety when operated, the mobile robot uses Bluetooth for remote control. The UV lamps can be switched on/off remotely. Can disinfect a room of 12×12 feet in less than an hour. It can used to disinfect patient rooms, rest rooms, medical equipment etc.
BODHI: Police/security personnel can use as outdoor surveillance and awareness robot on the streets, during shutdown/curfew in a situation like COVID or any pandemic or epidemic. Fitted with 360 degrees camera, and powerful speaker, it can be remotely operated using WiFi. It can be used in containment areas on streets where even police/security personnel can’t access. Police/security personnel can play recorded messages or even give live instructions from the control station.
MARUTI: The operator/caretaker using a Bluetooth application which can be installed in any smartphone or using a wireless joystick controller can operate the wheelchair at a safe distance of 1m up to 4m. Patients in isolation wards can be transported without the need for the operator to touch the wheelchair or the patients.
Self-E 2.0: With the self-driving wheelchair, Self-E 2.0, patients in isolation wards can be transported without the need for the operator. With the help of maps created for each floor of the hospital, the wheelchair can operate in various floors, autonomously.
Dear All,
By Amma’s grace and blessings, we are proud to announce that the team Na-Sarathy, a team of 31 students and researchers from HuT Labs, ECE Dept., has qualified for round 2 of the Indy Autonomous Challenge to compete in the world’s first $1.5 million autonomous racecar competition at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
HuT Labs team Na-Sarathy from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham ( https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/teams ) registered successfully to compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), organized by Energy Systems Network (ESN) and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). In total, 37 universities worldwide that excel in AI software and autonomous vehicle engineering have formed 31 teams to officially enter this first-of-its-kind challenge. Only two universities qualified for this racecar competition from India, we are one among the five from Asia.
The IAC is a $1.5 million prize competition among universities to program autonomous-modified Dallara IL-15 racecars. The teams will compete in the world’s first head-to-head race at speeds of up to 200 mph around the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway on October 23, 2021.
Student Team Members:
S8 ECE: Nikhil Chowdary, Jahnavi Yannam, Raviteja Geesala, Rohith Raj RV, Manaswini Motheram, Akhil Masetti, Akhil Tammana, Ravi Kiran Pasumarthi
S6 ECE: Santosh Tantravani, Hemanth Tammana, Nagasai Thokala, Sreevatsava Reddy Musani, Rahul Puram, Naveen Samudrala, Hemanth Nidamanuru, Lokesh Gadde, Rohit Inti
S4 ECE: Avinash Hegde Kota, Vijaya Krishna Tejaswi P, Vineeth prithvi Darla, Chaitanya N, Anirudh Dasari, Sriram Chowdary, Muneesh Puligundla
Namah Shivaya all,
We are extremely happy to share the news that by Amma’s grace HuT Lab’s first US patent got approved. The patent is titled “Method and Apparatus for Wireless Network-Based Control of a Robotic Machine” with the patent number numberUS20190069483.
We offer this patent at Amma’s lotus feet for She who gave us this idea of building the unmanned robotic coconut tree climber and personally guided us all through these years and still guiding us.
We thank Sw. Devidas Chaitanya, Director of our Campus for all the support that he is providing us. We also thank all others who supported us directly or indirectly in achieving this. Special thanks to Ms. Salma, the patent officer for all her help in filing this patent and getting approval.
Dear All,
By Amma’s grace and hard work of students and researchers at HuT Labs, following three project entries get into the semifinals of the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2020.
1.Amaran: Unmanned Robotic Coconut Tree Climber and Harvester
Team: Sakthiprasad K M, Avinash Hegde (S4 ECE) and Vijaya Krishna Tejaswi (S4 ECE)
2. Karachara: Hand Orthotic Device for Stroke Patients
Team: Shree Rajesh Raagul V, Pavanth Chenna Reddy, Sai Muneesh (S4 ECE) and Sri Ram (S4 ECE)
3. Suraksha: Crop Protection from Animal Attacks.
Team: Mahendran J, Arjun S, Samudrala Naveen (S6 ECE) and Sreevatsava Reddy (S6 ECE)
From a pool of more than 500 submissions all over the world, only 49 entries got selected for the semi finals. And HuT labs submitted six entries in total and got three of them in the semifinal 49 entries. Thanks to all those who worked extremely hard towards achieving this.
Special thanks to Vipin Pavithran who encouraged us to submit the entries.
Om Namah Shivaya,
Dear All,
By Amma’s grace and hard work of the students at HuT labs, two teams of BTech ECE students, PARICHARYA and VIJAYANTA won 2.25 million Japanese Yen (approx. 15 lakhs INR) towards participating in 2020 World Robot Summit in Japan next year. While team PARICHARYA won one million JPY, team VIJAYANTA won 1.25 million JPY. Of 119 professional teams that applied from all over world these two teams from HuT Labs are the only teams from India to qualify for the finals to be held in Japan next year. Team PARICHARYA will take part in Future Convenience Store Challenge in Oct 2020 and team VIAJANTA in Standard Disaster Robotic Challenge in Oct 2020. They will compete with top class professional teams from all over the world.
PARICHARYA: Akhil T, Rohith Raj, Akhil M, Nikhil C, Vignesh SN, Jahnavi Y, Manaswini M (S8 ECE)
VIJAYANTA: Nagasai C, Santosh T, Hemanth Surya, Rahul P, Naveen S, Sreevatsava M, Hemanth N, Lokesh G (S6 ECE)
Faculty Name: Dr: Rajesh Kannan Megalingam.
1. Awards
| S.No | Name of Award | Awarding Agency | Year |
| 1 | IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award | IEEE, NJ, USA
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2020 |
| 2 | Best Paper Award, “Wireless Gesture Controlled Wheelchair | International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems 2017, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu | 2017 |
| 3 | Best Paper Award, for “Autonomous Path Guiding Robot for Visually Impaired People.”
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International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Soft Computing, 2017, Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad | 2017 |
| 4 | Best Paper Award,
For “Development of Intelligent Wheelchair Simulator for Indoor Navigation Simulation and Analysis” |
IEEE WIECON ECE conference held in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology during Dec 19 -20, 2015, in the track AI and Computer Vision. | 2015 |
| 5 | Best Mechanical Design Award for “Robotic Coconut Tree Climber and Harvester” | One Moment Robot Glory (OMRG) 2017, Singapore | 2017 |
| 6 | Second Prize, for “Gesture Controlled Wheelchair”. | One Moment Robot Glory (OMRG) 2017, Singapore | 2017 |
| 7 | Award of Excellence, for excellent performance during the academic year 2013-2014 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University | 2013-2014 |
2) Professional Recognitions
| S.No | Recognitions | Awarding Agency | Year |
| 1 | Invited Speaker | AICTE sponsored FDP on Recent Advances in Sensors and Actuators, College of Engineering, Chengannur,Dec 2019 | 2019 |
| 2 | Invited Speaker
Topic: Agricultural Robotics – An Overview and a Case Study of Unmanned Robotic Coconut Tree Climber and Harvester |
Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, USA, Mar 2018 | 2018 |
| 3 | Invited Speaker
Topic: Agricultural and Healthcare Robotics – An Overview Robotic Coconut Tree Climber and Harvester and Indoor Navigational Platform |
ECE Department Society inauguration, Erode Sengundar Engineering College, Jan 2018 | 2018 |
| 4 | Invited Speaker
Topic: Self-Driving Navigational Platform
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Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, USA, Mar 2017 | 2017 |
| 5 | Program Chair | ROBOTSAVAM 2017, International Technical Festival Exclusively on Robotics, Jul 28 – 30, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India | 2017 |
| 6 | Robotic Competition Co-chair | International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, RAHA 2016, Dec 18-20, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
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2016 |
| 7 | Session Co-Chair, | International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, RAHA 2016, Dec 18-20, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India | 2016 |
| 8 | Program Chair | IEEE Symposium on Education, Technology and Entrepreneurship, ISEE 2012, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India, | For five consecutive years from 2012 to 2016. |
| 9 | Invited Speaker
Topic: Hand Gesture Recognition in Navigational Platform for Rehabilitation of People with Mobility Issues. |
IEEE WIECON-ECE 2015, ECE Building, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 19-20, 2015 | 2015 |
Description:
Most of the current research in mechanical energy harvesting focusses on converting mechanical energy created by human actions into electrical energy. Amusement parks industry is one of the world’s fastest growing industries in terms of revenue collected and attendance per year. According to a more recent unofficial survey conducted by roller coaster database, there are more than five thousand amusement parks in the world. Walt Disney World consumes the largest amount of power per year at 1213006 MWh of power with kids rides alone amounting to 83737 MWh of power annually. This project proposes a method of utilizing mechanical energy to drive a kid’s ride instead of electricity. The energy is harvested by winding a flat spiral spring and stored in the same spring through human action. This mechanical energy, without conversion into electrical energy, is used to drive a mechanical kid’s ride. As there is no energy conversion involved in the proposed method, there is no loss of energy. A kid’s ride prototype, Turtle Bot Ride (TBR) using the flat spiral spring is designed andevaluated.
2. Self driving wheelchair with Multimap Navigation for Multi-floor access using Elevator
description :
The Self driving wheelchair is developed for transportation of patients, differently abled and elderly people without any external intervention. It can reduce the burden of manual navigation and can make transportation easier by a single touch using an android application. The wheelchair is built with an isolation hood which will be helpful to keep social distancing. The transportation of infected patients will be risky incase of manual or powered wheelchairs without proper isolation. This self driving wheelchair can map any multi-floor building and can be used for multi-floor access using an elevator. The wheelchair also includes a manual mode which can be controlled using the same android application.
The system software is based on the ROS navigation stack, and it can map each floor separately, and load the maps according to the user’s needs. A Simultaneous Localization and mapping algorithm is used to create maps. A 360 degree laser scanner is used for mapping and navigation procedures. The user can access the elevator from any floor in the building using the android application. When an elevator reaches a particular floor, the floor map can be selected in the application and the wheelchair can be navigated to that floor. The map server in ROS Navigation stack is used to publish different maps as per the user input. The self driving wheelchair has a linux based control unit and a pair of 320 watt motors to power it. The wheelchair movement in the environment is monitored by a pair of rotary encoders attached to the motors. A six-axis Inertial Measurement Unit tracks the orientation of the wheelchair with respect to the environment. In addition to this several Ultrasonic Sensors are included to avoid collision.
The wheelchair can be very much useful in hospitals for the transportation of patients across multiple floors. Since the wheelchair has an isolation hood it will be safe to transport infected patients during a pandemic without any social contact. It has a wide application including households, universities, airports and other public places.
