ODYSSEUS 2

     ODYSSEUS is a robotic platform which was built as a thesis project in Automation Department of TEI of Thessaloniki. The first edition was created by Konstantinos Patsonas and Andreas Llenga, students of Automation department. The second version is an evolution of the first that enriched with new functions and new ideas within a separate thesis project. It developed by Panagiotis Rokanis and Leonidas Pozikidis,  students of Automation department, too. Dr. Alexandros Astaras has the supervision of ODYSSEUS project.

     It is about an autonomous navigation vehicle which has designed and constructed in order to follow a list of waypoints being received from a GPS unit. Furthermore, it has the ability to avoid possible obstacles or road irregularities, which may encounter in its route.

     

     In the second version of ODYSSEUS  rover, our goal was the  independence  of the user from  ODYSSEUS.  In other words,  it means that the physical presence of the user near the robotic platform is not necessary  for the start, stop, or change of the rover’s route.  In addition to this, we added a robotic arm and a wireless camera so as to have continuous supervision to the surrounding area and the operation of ODYSSEUS.

     The final work provides a fully remote controlled autonomous navigation platform with an ability of avoiding obstacles. In summary, ODYSSEUS 2 can offer the following functions:

• Receiving and storing GPS coordinates
• Wireless waypoint input
• Fully autonomous navigation
• Fully remote controlled navigation
• Wireless control of rover
• Wireless control of Robotic arm - Camera
• Automatic obstacle avoidance
• Automatic road irregularities avoidance

    It is a system that satisfies every willing of the user for automatic or manual navigation. The only limitations are the range of wireless subsystems and the efficiency of the power source.