Proceedings of 2017 ASEE Northeast Section Conference

Self-Guided Shopping Cart
Bilal Durrani, Abiel Garica, Ankur Patel
Abstract

On average the busiest day for grocery shoppers is Saturday and Friday. In 2008 the Time Use Institute conducted a survey, and concluded that there are on average 41 million shoppers who go grocery shopping on Saturdays; and 35 million on Fridays. Moreover, finding a parking spot combined with traffic is a causing congestion in parking lots. Congestion is a continuing problem, the U.S. reached 257.9 million cars in 2014 and it is only increasing every year. This project is to create a self-guided shopping cart to solve customers’ leaving shopping carts in undesirable locations in the parking lot. The system will include sensors and actuators controlled by microcontrollers and microprocessors such as an Arduino and Raspberry. The shopping cart is equipped with motors, ultrasonic sensors, and a radio transceiver/receiver. The analysis of the project is the shopping cart successfully was able to avoid external forces and variables and guide itself back to the docking station. 


Last modified: 2017-04-02

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