IMDL Fall 1997 Final Papers

Robot Creator Description Final Paper Pictures
Speedy Josue Pena Speedy is an autonomous high speed R/C car. Speedy can operate in two modes (selected automatically) autonomous mode or full radio control mode. Speedy.pdf
Speedy
Spot Rodrigo Osorio Spot is an autonomous Four-legged walking robot. It moves by shifting its weight. Pressure sensors on each leg help it control static balance. spot.pdf
ICC11 Code (file 1)
ICC11 Code (file 2)
Spot
DogBot Andrew Reddish DogBot is a four-legged walking robot able to navigate flat terrain. DogBot.pdf
DogBot
Mine Sweeper Nick Nguyen It is supposed to deactivate 4 IR emitters at 4 corners of the playing surface. Also, it has to avoid 4 fixed mine and a random mine (magnetic mine). Mine Sweeper.pdf Mine Sweeper
Grasshopper Nicolai Hoffman Grasshopper's objective is to find a food beacon, pick up food, find the home beacon and then drop the food. It is a RoboBug with a head that I designed to pick-up, hold, and drop ball bearings by only turning one motor in one direction. grasshopper.pdf
Grasshopper
One-Armed Bandit Thomas Harrington Bandit, a beacon retrieving robot, is made up of a TALRIK platform, EVBU M68HC11 with 32k of expanded memory, and a robotic arm manufactured by Lynxmotion, Inc. The sensors used on this robot are front/rear bump sensors, a collimated IR detector, and four general IR sensors. The behaviors are obstacle avoidance, collision avoidance, beacon acquire, and beacon capture. One-Armed_Bandit.pdf One-Armed Bandit
Puff Steve McKinnon Puff is a TJ with a modified sensor suite. This basic robot platform is used with two different algorithms to create a predator or prey autonomous agent. Puff.pdf
Puff
VAL Daniel Copeland Val is a valet robot whose purpose is to carry something from its docking station to different possible locations, and then return to recharge and wait for a command. Val records how to get to these locations by human direction via remote control. Then, the recorded instructions are saved on a pc computer under a voice command which, when heard by the pc's voice recognition software, will trigger Val to go to the determined location autonomously and return. VAL.pdf
Val
Tucker and Buddy Jamie Hoffacker Tucker and Buddy are a mother/child duo that use IR and audible tones to send messages and communicate with each other. They are based on Talrik and TJ platforms respectively, with modified sensor suites. TuckerBuddy.pdf
Tucker and Buddy
Pipin Marius Bratrein PIPIN is a simple, yet functional autonomous underwater robot with behaviors and sensors specific to aquatic environments. The effort so far has focused mostly on the mechanical challenges of three dimensional movement control and operations, leaving many interesting opportunities in the behaviour control open for further investigations. Pipin.pdf Pipin
Monty Melissa Jones The snake will avoid obstacles using IR emitters/detectors and bump sensors. It is also able to detect motion using a security motion sensor. Monty.pdf
Monty
Scout Mark Atchinson Scout is an exploration robot. The primary behavior uses the on-board sonar ranging system to seek out targets that need investigation. Scout.pdf Scout
Khan Steve Farago Khan is a two-wheeled robot based on the TalrikTM platform. It plays capture-the-flag with Moyer's Destroyer. khan_moyer.pdf
ICC11 Code from Khan (Includes ICC11 Sound and Music Code.)
Khan
Moyer's Destroyer Brian Moyer Moyer's Destroyer is a two-wheeled robot based on the TalrikTM platform. It plays capture-the-flag with Khan. Khan_Moyer.pdf Moyer's Destroyer
RAID Zer Liang Raid is an autonomous six-legged robot. Its function is to detect and avoid obstacles, detect collisions and follow a black prey. raid.pdf
RAID
Dicken's Rover Thomas Cosenza Dedicated to a friend taken early in life, the rover uses light sensing technolgy to search out for holes and then with its robotic arm opens a servo and dumps material in the hole filling it. Dickens.pdf Dicken's Rover
Bullpen Darren Walton The project was the building and programming of a predator and its associated "dumb" prey. The predator is to detect the motion of the prey, sense the prey's proximity, and locate the prey by means of the prey's lights. Using these 3 "prey" signals the predator is to find and disable the prey. Bullpen.pdf
Bullpen
Moctar Justin McCollum MOCTAR is a collector type robot which has four wheel drive and steering in the back. It can carry more than one object at a time and uses two micro- controllers interconnected through the SPI. Moctar.pdf Moctar

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