IMDL Fall 2011 Final Reports
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Robot |
Creator |
Description |
Final Paper |
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Wakeup Insurance
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Chris Dobson |
Wakeup Insurance job is to ensure that its owner
wakes up on time. Wakeup Insurance performs a variety of actions to wake up its
owner, and then return to sleep move and charges his battery. |
Final Report
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Philanthrobot
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Noah Stahl |
Philanthrobot is a charity collecting robot whose main goal is to seek out and attract potential donors. Philanthrobot will charm people into making a donation, thank them, and then look for another patron. |
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Ball-E
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Lee Tsakh |
Ball-E will collect
tennis balls and launch them (one at a time) at a designated target.
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Final Report
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Packy
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Roger Rodriguez |
Packy is a packaging
robot. He locates objects of a selected color, picks them up using a universal
gripper, and places them in a plastic package. The gripper isĘ based on the
interlocking property of granular materials when subject to vacuum, called
jamming transition. (The gripper is based on a novel idea by researchers of the
University of Chicago and Cornell University.) |
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Shot Bot
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Nathan Barnwell |
Shot Bot surveys an area for the target wearing enemy colors while avoiding obstacles. Once the enemy has been spotted, Shot Bot aligns, shoots, and elimates the adversary. |
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Sentinel
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Aleksandras Kaknevicius |
Sentinel will safeguard a narrow passage, blocking intruders or alerting others when an intruder has tried to pass it. If the correct password is given to the Senitnel (i.e., "singing a particular song"), he will allow entry through the protected area. |
Final Report
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PyroBot
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Charles Groom |
PyroBot tracks and seeks rubies and sapphires (for his lady love back home). He will not move unless he hears loud sounds, music, or yelling pirates. Once PyroBot has found the jewels, he will attack the other ship and set it on fire with his on-board flame thrower. |
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Green Helper
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Yue Bai |
Green Helper will find a flower bot and water add water for the flowers if necessary, by detecting the soil mosture level. |
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AR-4
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Binyan Li |
AR-4 can search through a maze to first find and then extinguish a fire. |
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DCR
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Yushun He |
DCR (Debris Clearing Robot) will remove debris that he encounters. DCR will gauge the size of the debris before attempting to remove it. If the debris is too large, DCR will sound an alarm |
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Murphy
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Phong Truong |
Murphy tracks targets using a wireless IP camera and color blob detection. Once the target is found, he will eliminate it using a movified USB missile launcher on a pan/tilt servo system. Obstacle avoidance is performed by using two sonar sensors and four bump switches. |
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Sweeper
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Jiongran Zhang |
Sweeper can find and sort recyclables (bottles and cans). |
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BridgeBot
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Navid Shahrestani |
BridgeBot is an exploration robot capable of crossing over gaps that it encounters along its path. |
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Shop Mulinator
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Marina Yokota |
Shop-Mulinator is an automated mule type robot made for shoppers. He follows a shopper and carries their shopping items in his basket. |
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Robocop
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Mark Kampfer |
Robocop will search for "criminals." Once found, he targets and then eliminates them with his anti-criminal weapon system. |
Final Report
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MOVS
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Kevin Hoffman |
MOVS (Mobile Office Delivery System) delivers packages between rooms in a office building. She utilizes a camera to guide herself to her destination and uses sonars to avoids obstacles. |
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Eos-Explorer
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Chenran Ye |
The Eos-Explorer will moved towards a desired location (using GPS), while avoiding obstacles. He will also send real time video images to a base station. |
