Smart Shopping Cart

This project aims to design and develop a prototype of an automated motorized shopping cart, capable of trailing shoppers along with the extensive ability to avoid obstacles with its built-in intelligence. This feature has enabled the study of embedding the extensive ability of trailing shoppers in a shopping complex. Given a situation with obstacles in a complex mall, the shopping cart would have the ability to evade them. This can be done because of the system is governed by a simple micro-controller (Arduino Mega 2560), with ultrasonic positioning system (Transmitter and Receiver based approach) for identifying and locating the target person, and infrared sensors system to measure the direction of obstacles. In hope of adding intelligence values the shopping cart would be design in such a way that, the purpose of extending convenience service and safety to the customer can be delivered.