The purpose of this project is to research and develop a system to autonomously clear a specified area of snow. The resultant system includes a modified snowblower, a base station, and a computer application to monitor and define the area for the snowblower to clear. A high precision GPS is equipped on both the snowblower and the base station to provide accurate location data. The snowblower is additionally equipped with a LIDAR sensor for obstacle detection in the snow, as well as a microcontroller to run embedded software and interface with the computer application. The team faced many design challenges and learned a substantial amount through the implementation of the research they conducted.

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Creator

• Rowles, Nicholas Tyler
• Pongratz, Daniel Joseph
• Vaporciyan, Harrison Louis

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042717-032401

Advisor

• Michalson, William R.

Year

• 2017

Date created

• 2017-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright