Project Overworld: Campus GPS App

Project Overworld is an interactive GPS enabled map of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute campus, which is accessible through mobile devices. The project aims to act as a guidance system for freshmen and to provide connectivity between WPI students. The application features a avatar creation and customization system, similar to fantasy role-playing type games. By exploring various locations of campus and answering trivia questions, players can level up and further customize their avatar. This paper documents the design process behind the application

Hospital Lobby Assistant Robot

The primary goal of this MQP is to produce a user friendly robot that assists users in navigating a given area. Specifically, this group chose to focus on a hospital setting. In order to achieve this goal, the group designed a robot that was capable of navigation, possessed an arm with which to open doors, and that could be commanded by users from an intuitive on-board UI. A secondary goal of this MQP was to create an extensible platform for future groups. To achieve this goal, the team designed a modular backend system so that new modules could be added to the robot in the future with minimal time spent by future groups on integration