| IMDL/MIL/Gator Roboics Robot Demo Descriptions | |||||
| Media/Guest Robot Demos and Competition: Wed, December 7, 2011, 11am-4:00pm | IMDL = Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory | ||||
| at the J. Wayne Reitz Student Union Colonnade | MIL = Machine Intelligence Laboratory | ||||
| Competition starts at 11am; IMDL demonstartions start at 1:00pm | GR = Gator Robotics | ||||
| This info available at: | http://mil.ufl.edu/imdl/robot_info_f11.htm | CIMAR = Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics | |||
| Parking info at: | http://mil.ufl.edu/imdl/parking.html | IEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||
| More pictures and videos will be available at: | http://mil.ufl.edu/5666/papers/IMDL_Report_Fall_11/ | ||||
| Designer's Name | Robot's Name | Robot Description | Affiliation | Website URL | # |
| Many | Competition Robots | Several teams of UF students have created robots that will compete in a Gator Robotics competition by following a line and navigating through a maze. Prizes will be awarded. | GR | http://gatorrobotics.com/ roboticsfair/fall2011/ | 1 |
| Nic Fischer, Patrick Walters, Matt Thompson, Gautam Dash, Paul Launier, … | SubjuGator, UF's Robot Submarine | SubjuGator is an autonomous submarine. The SubjuGator you will see is a past world champion and is one of the 3 world champion SubjuGator robots designed in the last 7 years at UF. | MIL | http://subjugator.org/ | 2 |
| Mike Franks, Colin Watson, Andres Vargas, Camilo Buscaron | InstiGator, UF's Robot Lawnmower | InstiGator is an autonomous lawnmower. The robot and team won the static division of the 8th Annual ION (Institute of Navigation) Robotic Lawn Mower Compeitition in Ohio in June 2011. | MIL | InstiGator in Alligator Newspaper | 3 |
| Sean Wright, Gautam Dash, Josh Weaver, Shane Wright, Jose Diaz, … | Dune Buggy Swarm | Group of small Dune Buggies that do tasks together in a swarm. | MIL | 4 | |
| Camilo Buscaron and others | Blue Rover | MIL's version of the Mars Rover, originally developed in IMDL by Bob Pitzer in the mid 1990's. With 6-wheels, each with forward motors, four wheels with turning capabilities, and a rocker-bogie suspension, this vehicle can travel over rough terrains. | MIL | 5 | |
| Many | NaviGator 2 (Highlander) | UF's DARPA Urban Challenge vehicle, the NaviGator 2, a completely autonomous Toyota Highlander Hybrid. | CIMAR | http://cimar.mae.ufl.edu/CIMAR/pages/ pics/vehicles/urban_challenge07/ urban_challenge.html | 6 |
| Charlie Groom | PyroBot | 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. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/charliegroomsrobot/ | 7 |
| Marina Yokota | Shop-Mulinator | Shop-Mulinator is an automated mule type robot made for shoppers. He follows a shopper and carries their shopping items in his basket. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/theshopmulinator/ | 8 |
| Navid Shahrestani | BridgeBot | BridgeBot is an exploration robot capable of crossing over gaps that it encounters along its path. | IMDL | http://plaza.ufl.edu/navids/ | 9 |
| Noah Stahl | Philanthrobot | 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. | IMDL | http://philanthrobot.blogspot.com/ | 10 |
| Binyan Li | AR-4 | AR-4 can search through a maze to first find and then extinguish a fire. | IMDL | http://plaza.ufl.edu/libinyan/ WebSite/AR-4.htm | 11 |
| Roger Rodriguez | Packy | 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 is 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.) | IMDL | http://sites.google.com/ site/robotswebsite/ | 12 |
| Yushun He | DCR | 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. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/sonnyhe2002/imdl | 13 |
| Aleksandras Kaknevicius | Sentinel | 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. | IMDL | http://plaza.ufl.edu/ aleas121/Index.htm | 14 |
| Mark Kampfer | Robocop | Robocop will search for "criminals." Once found, he targets and then eliminates them with his anti-criminal weapon system. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/imdlrobot/ | 15 |
| Chris Dobson | Wakeup Insurance | 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 mode and charges his battery. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/ wakeupinsurance4665/ | 16 |
| Nathan Barnwell | Shot Bot | 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. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/ nathanbarnwellshotbot/home | 17 |
| Yue Bai | Green Helper | Green Helper will find a flower bot and water add water for the flowers if necessary, by detecting the soil mosture level. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/greenhelper1028/ | 18 |
| Kevin Hoffman | MODS | MODS (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. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/modsimdlfall11/ | 19 |
| Lee Tsakh | Ball-E | Ball-E will collect tennis balls and launch them (one at a time) at a designated target. | IMDL | http://plaza.ufl.edu/leetsakh/ | 20 |
| Phong Truong | Murphy | Murphy tracks targets using a wireless IP camera and color blob detection. Once the target is found, he will eliminate it using a modified USB missile launcher on a pan/tilt servo system. Obstacle avoidance is performed by using two sonar sensors and four bump switches. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/pttruong6735/ | 21 |
| Shengkai Kong | Tic-Tac Player | Tic-Tac Player, with a Tic-Tac-Toe board on his back, will search for Gators (people wearing orange or blue), and ask them to play tic-tac-toe. | IMDL | http://plaza.ufl.edu/skong03/ | 22 |
| Jiongran Zhang | Sweeper | Sweeper can find and sort recyclables (bottles and cans). | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/jrzhangsweeper/ | 23 |
| Chenran Ye | Eos-Explorer | 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. | IMDL | http://sites.google.com/ site/eosexplorerye/ | 24 |