IMDL Fall 2008 Final Reports
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Robot |
Creator |
Description |
Final Paper |
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The Enforcer |
Alen Cruz |
The
Enforcer is an autonomous police cruiser that will leverage vision and other
sensory information to detect, track, and pull over a remote control car |
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Chromatic Trailblazer |
Vivek Anand |
Chromatic
Trailblazer is an autonomous robot capable of tracking chromatic objects. He
uses a wireless camera for tracking a colored ball. The robot transmits video
to a stand-alone computer which then relays back information for finding the
ball. |
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Road-Block |
Azhar Khan |
Road Block can detect gaps in a wall of wooden blocks and insert blocks in these gaps. |
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B.O. Bot |
Chris Thomas |
B.O. Bot is an autonomous odor detector and neutralizer. Its primary goal is to roam a room, searching for offensive odors and spraying chemicals to neutralize them. |
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Bender to Offender |
Chris Wells |
Bender
the Offender is an Automated Annoyance Robot that will roam around the room
looking for 1 of two colors. One color will scare him and
he will attempt to get away from it, while another color will provoke him and
cause him to shoot a projectile at the target before running away. |
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The Brave Little Roaster |
David Meadows |
The
Brave Little Roaster locates a flame in order to roast a marshmallow. |
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Quad-rotor |
Jose Morales |
This 4-propellor vehicle will hover autonomously. |
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tennisfan |
Keith Solberg |
tennisfan is a Tennis Player’s best friend. It will play as a ball machine on the endline of a tennis court, throwing balls to the other side for the player to return. At the push of a remote button, tennisfan will navigate to the side of the court to get out of your way and, if desired, throw balls to you for play with a friend. |
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Mechtron |
Nataraja Chockalingam |
Mechtron is a simple robot designed to recognize voice and perform various household chores like vacuuming and fetching an object as specified by the user based on its color. |
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Traffic Flobot |
Phil Osteen |
Traffic Flobot is the application of a design concept for multiple vehicle communication. He will follow a lead vehicle's brake lights. Traffic Flobot will intelligently decide whether to brake or pass the lead vehicle. |
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Scintillation |
Premchand Prasad |
Scintillation (or SCINTI) sounds off an alarm on spotting a particular color with its camera and indicates its position with the help of a GPS. |
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Assault Gator |
Richard Brett Mitchell |
Assault
Gator is a Nerf Warfare Autonomous Robot with one objective, "Search and
Destroy." |
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Weebo |
Ryan Chilton |
Weebo roams the house looking for lights that have been left
on and, if no one is around, turns them off. He also wakes up his owner
in the morning with an alarm, makes sure he/she gets out of bed, turns on the
lights, and displays the weather on the LCD screen. Security guard behavior
is also included. |
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Tony Soprano: “Waste Management” |
Salvatore Torre |
Waste Management is a robot that finds, collects, and sorts, recyclable materials. |
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REEB |
Sarit Patel |
Reeb is an autonomous drink retriever. It will move along a table
top waiting for ordering customers. When a customer places an
order through the RFID ordering system, it will retrieve and deliver the
drink from one of three drink stations located on the table. |
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Golf |
Shashank Sawant |
Ouimet’s habitat is a miniaturized
golf field. Once activated, she will search for a randomly placed ball. After
that Ouimet will locate the hole with a flag and
estimate the distance from its current position. She will align herself with
the ball and the hole (Ouimet
– ball – hole) and then putt the ball into the hole. |
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Cool Breeze |
Zach_Fuchs |
Cool
Breeze is a firefighting robot. He will navigate through a
maze (to simulate a building with multiple rooms) looking for a fire. Once the fire is located, it
approaches the flame and extinguishes it using a CO2 system. |