Autonomous Systems:Tutorial 1

Mechatronics Engineering

Dr. Islam S. M. Khalil

German University in Cairo

Faculty of Engineering and Material Science

February 10, 2018

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Contact Information
M.Sc. Omar Mahmoud Shehata
Email: omar.mohamad@guc.edu.eg
Office: C1.201
M.Sc. Lobna Tarek Abo Serre
Email: lobna.aboserre@guc.edu.eg
Office: C1.201
M.Sc. Catherine Malak Elias
Email: catherine.elias@guc.edu.eg
Office: C1.201
Eng. Ali Bahaa Bahgat
Email: ali.bahgat@guc.edu.eg
Office: C1.202
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Course Assessment

Final (Open Book) 40%

Midterm (Open Book) 20%
Project 40%

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Project
Team consist of 5 to 7 members.
The registration is done through a link and list of accepted
teams will be available on intranet. (deadline:Thursday
15th February 2018)
Milestone 1 (5%):
evaluations will be on Tuesday 22nd February 2018.
Milestone 2 (10%):
evaluations will be on Tuesday 6th March 2018.
Milestone 3 (10%):
evaluations will be on Tuesday 10th April 2018.
Milestone 4 (15%):
evaluations will be on Tuesday 3rd May 2018.
Any late submission will cause a deduction in the grade.
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Introduction
Autonomous Systems are those which can operate in an
unstructured environment to achieve a certain task without
human interaction or intervention. where, the unstructured
environment means without previous information about the
surroundings.

Tasks required by autonomous systems can be

surveillance, search and rescue, fire fighting and demining.
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For Any Autonomous Robot
(1) Locomotion: according to application define how the robot
will be mobile;
wheeled.
legged (hexapod).
flying (quad-rotor).
Others.
(2) Localization: defining exact location using:
Encoders
IMU: inertial measurement unit, accelerometer and
gyroscope.
GPS.
Others.

(3) Navigation: detecting the surroundings.

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For Any Autonomous Robot

(4) Mapping: drawing a map of the enviroment.

(5) Control architecture:
Centralized
Decentralized.
Others.

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 Any Questions ?
Thank you

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