Computer Assisted Goal Oriented Walking Robot

The paper discusses a senior design project which was implemented during a two-semester course, Senior Design. These two courses are the capstone courses in Electrical Engineering Technology curriculum offered in seventh and eighth semester. This project and similar projects provides the student a unique opportunity to design and integrate the knowledge and skills acquired through number of different courses. The paper will elaborate the project “Computer Assisted GOAL Oriented Walking Robot” the design of which requires knowledge in the area of general electronics, speed and direction control of stepper motors, microcontroller embedded system design, firmware design of microcontroller, wireless communication, PC based system design, software design for PC, hardware software integration and use of transducers.