| IMDL/MIL Robot Demo Descriptions | |||||
| Media/Guest Robot Demos: Wed, Dec. 5, 2012, 1:00-3:30pm in the NEB Harris Rotunda | IMDL = Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory | ||||
| This info availabl | http://mil.ufl.edu/imdl/robot_info_f12.htm | MIL = Machine Intelligence Laboratory | |||
| Parking info at: | http://mil.ufl.edu/imdl/parking.html | ||||
| Designer's Name | Robot's Name | Robot Description | Affiliation | Website URL | # |
| Andrew Gray | Bird Buggy | The Bird Buggy is a mobile platform that a parrot can utilize for self transportation. The robot can autonomously locate and dock with a recharging station. The robot will also provide feedback to the parrot in order to improve his (the parrot's) driving skills. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/birdbuggy109/ | 1 |
| Andrew Wegener | PropaGator | PropaGator is an Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV, i.e., a boat) The PropaGator will travel to GPS waypoints and … | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/thepropagatorasv/ | 2 |
| Ilan Eskinazi | Marey's Hand | Marey's Hand is a low-cost sEMG-controlled prosthetic hand for amputees. It analyses biopotentials from the user's muscles to actuate a hand mechanism in the desired manner. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/emgprosthetic/ | 3 |
| Daniel Frank | Fallen Angel | Fallen Angel is an autonomous mobile personal emergency response system. Fallen Angel patrols the home, avoiding obstacles while searching for someone who has fallen. Once a person is detected lying on the floor, it calls for help by sending an e-mail and text message to prearranged emergency contacts. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/ site/imdlfallenangel/home | 4 |
| Juan David Rios | AlienBot | AlienBot is an autonomous robot that can follow lines, perform color recognition and avoid obstacles. The AlienBot's goal is to find Aliens (colored objects) and shot them with a laser pointer. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/engineerdreamer/home/robotics/AlienBot | 5 |
| Ivan Bukreyev | The American | With six legs, each with 3 degrees-of-freedom, The American will be able to walk with multiple gates. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/theamericanatuf2012/ | 6 |
| Kechen Tang | Gift | Gift is a smart servant robot. She will follow a line in order to help find an item that was ordered and then bring it back. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/gatorgifts2012/home | 7 |
| Mike McGrath | HAPPY | HAPPY (He's
A Pro Putter for You) is an autonomous, Happy Gilmore-themed, putting robot. He will locate a golf ball and putt it within a designated target area. |
IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/imdlhappyrobot/home | 8 |
| Luther Lloyd III | Wrench Dog | Wrench Dog is a mechanics best friend because he searches the garage floor looking for wrenches, and picking them so that the mechanics can focus on their work. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/wrenchdogimdluf/ | 9 |
| Eduardo Moreno | Enforcer | The Enforcer searches for a target and tracks it. When he finds his target, he will enforce the law by delivering a painful blow. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/emorenouf/enforcer | 10 |
| John Phillips | Holey Moley | Holey Moley is a subterranean, mole-like robot. When she finds an wall obstructing her path, she can dig underneath the obstruction to reach her desired destination. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalholeymoley/ | 11 |
| Xiaodong Fang | Wall Follower | Wall Follower is an automatic wall-following and color tracking robot. She will approach, detect and travel parallel to a wall (or large object). Once the wall is detcted, Wall Follower will look for a particular color to track. Wall Follower is my first step in creating a parallel parking robot. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/xiaodongsimdlwebpage/ | 12 |
| Matthew Thompson | FlameWheel UAV | The FlameWheel UAV is an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to autonomously transport and deploy payloads anywhere on the globe via GPS waypoints. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/flamewheeluav/ | 13 |
| Josh Weaver, Gautam Dash, Matt Thompson | MILaGator | MIL's quadcopter. | MIL | 1 | |
| Patrick Walters, Matt Thompson, Gautam Dash, Paul Launier, … | SubjuGator, UF's Robot Submarines | 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 |
| Andres Vargas, Colin Watson, Camilo Buscaron, John Phillips, Andrew Wegener, William Rolke, Andrew Gray | InstiGator, UF's Robot Lawnmowers | 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. We will show InstiGator 1 and InstiGator 2 from the 2012 competition. | MIL | InstiGator in Alligator Newspaper | 3 |
| Josh Weaver, Gautam Dash | Dune Buggy Robot | One of a group of Dune Buggy robots. | MIL | 4 | |
| Originally created in the late 1990's by Bob Pitzer, at least 10 other MIL students have modified this robot. | Mars Rover | MIL's Mars Rover has been rebuilt several times, including in early 2012. It is mechanically very similar to the first Mars Rovers (that is still on Mars and landed there in 1997) and has much in common with the other two Rovers that landed on Mars in 2004. | MIL | 5 | |