Search and discovery rovers have evolved to play an essential part in disaster relief and humanitarian aid. With features such as supervised autonomy, high-definition vision systems, and enhanced mobility, the goal of this project is to create an amphibious rover to aid in search and discovery. Such a rover would not only give relief teams more information about the situation at hand, but also eliminate the danger of sending search parties into harsh and high-risk environments. The addition of water mobility allows teams to deploy the WALRUS Rover after disasters such as tsunamis or hurricanes. The end result of this project is a fully functional prototype of an amphibious rover guided by our design requirements.

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Creator

• McLeod, Brendan Kyle
• Wills, Mitchell Edwin
• Eccles, Brian James
• Watson, Thomas Jeffery
• Murcko, Timothy Michael

Contributors

• Heinricher, Arthur C.
• Dimitrov, Velin
• Cyganski, David
• Oates, Karen

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042615-203803

Award

• Provost's MQP Award

Advisor

• Stafford, Kenneth A.
• Chernova, Sonia
• Padir, Taskin

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-04-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interdisciplinary
• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

Last modified

• 2023-09-20