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CHAPTER 7
FUTURE WORK
This chapter summarises the future work that may be carried out on the Mobile
Manoeuvring Robot. Future work has been detailed in each individual section such as
chassis design and software; however this chapter aims to provide the possible future
work in a neat summary.
7.1 Hardware
7.1.1 Chassis Design
As described earlier, the current chassis, consisting of an aluminium box section with
two worm drive gearboxes mounted inside, is barely adequate for the desired purpose of
the Mobile Manoeuvring Robot. The design has very limited space with the current
components as it is required to support:
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Two gearbox drives with motors
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Two H Bridge cards
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One microcontroller card
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Three obstacle sensors
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Sensor PCB
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Noise filter
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Power Supply
For future work to continue, the chassis needs to be extended or re-constructed. The
layered design explained in chapter 5 (performance and data analysis) is deemed the
most adequate.
7.1.2 Sensor Design
The sensors require very little extra work as they are adequate as they are. If the
purpose of this robot is extended to achieve more practical tasks, the sensors may need
to be adjusted to give a wider range. This may be more suitable for detecting smaller or
less obvious obstacles in the path. This extension may be completed by removing the