Homework 5 - Robot Sensing

As discussed in class, the sensor suite employed by a robot substantially impacts its performance and should be chosen to suit its mission.

Consider again the mission of acting as a robotic guide to DEH and RAWL, as described in Homework 3.

1. List and describe a set of tasks that the robot could carry out to successfully complete this mission. (Note that this could be but is not required to be the same set of tasks you listed and described in Homework 3.)
2. Describe a sensor suite that you believe would be well suited to the robotic guide mission. Explain why you believe it to be well suited to this mission. (That is, make a cogent argument in favor of using these sensors in conjunction with one another for this mission and defend your choices with reference to the overall mission and the sensors' complementary strengths and weaknesses.)
3. For each task you listed, explain how one or more of the sensors you selected would be used in carrying out the task.

Turn in via D2L an electronic copy of this assignment consisting of your typed responses to the exercises above. In total, your responses should run from 1.5 to 2.5 pages in length (roughly 80 characters per line, 50 lines per page). This does not count any diagrams or other figures that you may choose to include which may be of any size.