The City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering maintains over 7,500 miles of sidewalks. When a segment of sidewalk does not settle evenly or has been raised up by tree-root growth, the sidewalk becomes uneven. This can create pedestrian hazards. In addition, the City is obligated to ensure that its sidewalks conform to Federal ADA standards, which limit the extent to which a sidewalk may slope.

ABSTRACT / DESCRIPTION: This the third term of a multi-year project. Restarting from last year's project the goal was to build upon their initial work and produce a rover that has the capabilities which include, measuring sidewalk slope, getting the gps location and determining if the grade of the sidewalk is in compliance with the ADA. The goal is to be able to provide an easier method of collecting data and to enable the city personnale to anticipate possible problems. 

We hope to have a completed a semi-autonomous robot by the end of May 2020. During the Fall and Winter terms, we hope to complete building the robot (hardware). 

A note to the grader:

The powerpoint slides that we had used in our presentation had some video, as such they are now just still images.