Ahmed Mustafa Malik

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Scout Rover 
Scout Rover is a 4-wheeled differential drive rover. It’s purpose is to explore unknown indoor 
environments completely autonomously - without any human intervention. For this purpose, it uses 
only a single front-facing depth camera as an input sensor. The visual data from the input is 
processed to estimate the location of the rover in its environment by measuring relative movement 
in consecutive video frames. This information is also used to simultaneously generate  a two-
dimensional (2D) map. The map shows occupied and open spaces in the environment. 
Hardware setup: 
 - Arduino (on rover) is used to control the motor driver and move the rover 
 - Raspberry Pi (on rover) gets the data from Kinect (input sensor) and forwards it to server 
 - Server processes the data and sends movement commands back to the Raspberry Pi which is 
relayed to Arduino and then to the motor driver. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Technology Used: 
Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Microsoft Kinect, 
  Python, OpenCV, Flask 
Supervisor Name: 
Dr. Muhammad Adnan Tariq 
Group Members:   
Hamza Mukhtar (i17 - 0023) 
Muhammad Musa (i17 - 0037) 
Ahmed Mustafa Malik (i17 - 0227)