The Auto Aid Cart is an autonomous self-driving medicine cart prototype developed using C++ and built utilizing; Arduino, ultrasonic sensors, photoresistors, and servo motors.
The AAC was designed to automate the transport of medicne throughout a hospital to lessen the strain on nurses. The first mode allows you to control the cart manually via the D-PAD controls on your android smartphone. The second mode makes the cart autonomous letting it go to different rooms by its self.
- An Arduino parallax bot was used as the base of the cart and an enclosure was designed to hide wires and attach the sensors to.
- An ultrasonic sensor holder along was designed and screwed to securely fasten the sensors to housing.
- Sensor holder was 3-D printed using MakerBot Replicator+
- Enlarging the entire protype and using faster DC motors for actual use.
- Using GPS sensors rather than programming specific rooms.
- Make components and breadboard more readily accessible since it is glued shut currently. With an opening the AAC would be able to get more sensors and components.
- Adding an emergency mode which makes the cart go faster and sound an audible emergency warning so people in the hospital could move out of the way.
Click here, to see the code and here to see the completed prototype.
