Sviluppo di un robot per le consegne sull'ultimo miglio = Development of a robot for the last-mile delivery

This work resumes and continues what has been done previously about the design of the Pacci drone. Pacci is the result of a project started in April 2022, it is an autonomous delivery robot, dealing with the last-mile delivery, which is the last segment of the path, it is the one in which many and different problems have been encountered. In this work all the main researches about this topic and the problems that have been examined are collected and reported, since these constituted the starting point of the initial stages of design of the ground drone. Particular attention has been dedicated to the themes of sustainability, inclusivity and safety. After this part, all the requirements, both functional and technical, have been outlined, analysing the devices that have been chosen for the traction system and energy storage, together with the stylistic choices and volumes definition. The core of this work is represented by the study that has been conducted on the systems enabling the autonomy of the vehicle in driving and travelling among pedestrians, so that a first definition of sensors and controllers has been reported and then they have been integrated in the vehicle system model to test their behaviour.