1. Ethan Hall Michael Kelton Greg Wegman Vashisht Lakhmani
Patent Liability Analysis
Ethan Hall
Michael Kelton
Greg Wegman
Vashisht Lakhmani

2. Rover Design

3. About the Rover Autonomous and Manual control
Accelerometer, Digital Compass and 4 Ultrasonic sensors for detecting environment and locating position
6 wheeled chassis, 4 wheels driven by motors other 2 dead.
Tracking and managing battery life
Transmitting live video feed
Communicating with base station through wireless and WiFly GSX

4. Patents
Developed by California Institute of Technology in association with JPL and NASA.
Patent issued for design of the Mars exploration rover Athena.
US D487,715S

5. Commercial Products Coroware – Corobot 4 wheel design
Utilizes laser ranger finder and bumper sensors.
On board computer in windows or linux
WiFi and Camera streaming data
At the moment they do not own any patents

6. Commercial Products Wowwee – Rovio 3 Omni-directional wheels
Self-docking return to charging station
Head mounted camera
Able to set waypoints for navigation
Requires tracking beacon for navigation

7. Questions?