| IMDL/MIL Robot Demo Descriptions | |||||
| Media/Guest Robot Demos: Wed, Apr. 24, 2013, 12:30-3:30pm in the NEB Harris Rotunda | IMDL = Intelligent Machines Design Laborator | ||||
| This info available at: | http://mil.ufl.edu/imdl/robot_info_s13.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 | # |
| Adam Hoyt | Guardian | The Guardian patrols a home at night to defend it from trespassers. Navigating throughout the house, The Defender will track and attack (with a nerf dart) any trespasser she finds. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/theguardianrobot/home | 1 |
| Lin Wang | Shake Shake Shake | Shake Shake Shake is a dice playing robot. She can interact with a player, shake the dice, guess the points, and give feedback to the player. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/letusshake2013/ | 2 |
| Rohan Prakash | Dobby | Dobby takes an object placed on top of it to a designated position. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/dobbyimdl | 3 |
| Jia Duan | Wake-Up Robot: Kilala | Kilala is a smart robot designed for lazy people. Her job is to wake up someone in a bedroom by knocking on the door. Kilala will use her camera to find the door. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/robotkilala/ | 4 |
| Brandon Patton | LOSAT | LOSAT (Line Of Sight Audio Transmission) sends audio to a specified target within a line of sight. LOSAT projects a focused light beam to illuminate a moving target. Audio signals are transmitted over the light beam by modulating the light intensity. The target has built in amplifiers to play the audio. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/314losat/ | 5 |
| Frank Bergschneider | Mini-Dog | Mini-Dog is an intelligent autonomous quadruped robot designed to follow a designated leader using color tracking. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/minidogfbb/ | 6 |
| Michael Mulet | ScaredyCat | ScaredyCat runs away and hides from scary objects that it "sees." | IMDL | http://sites.google.com/site/scaredycatrobot/ | 7 |
| Jiaying Zhang | Pool Player | Pool Player is designed to play table-top pool. He uses a camera fixed above the pool table to locate the balls and pockets. Pool Player then positions himself at the necessary location to line up and make his shot. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/poolplayerzjy/ | 8 |
| Leonardo Falcon | MiceBot | MiceBot can track its trajectory using two optical mouse sensors. Its goal is to reach a specific location as performing obstacle avoidance. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/imdlmicebot/ | 9 |
| Mark Tate | TESLA | TESLA is a hexapod. She was designed to patrol a room witht the mission of finding human life forms and detering their stay with a playful (mostly harmless) shock. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/teslaufimdl2013/ | 10 |
| Tianyu Gu | Hex Guard | Hex Guard is a powerful terrain walking dog with six arc-shaped legs. He can climb over small obstacles while searching for metal objects. If it finds metal, it sends out a warning. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/imdlhex/ | 11 |
| Nyal Jennings | TaleGator | The TaleGator is designed carry a water cooler. He will follow a user while also avoid obstacles. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/talegator01/ | 12 |
| Chenlu (Nel) Sun | Baby Duck | The Baby Duck always follows her mom. When mom is absent, she likes wandering around and exploring the world. What a good baby! |
IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/imdlbabyduck/ | 13 |
| Travis Whitley | The Prowler | The Prowler can navigate offroad to designated GPS coordinates. He can track selected colored objects. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/ufprowler/ | 14 |
| Jeraz Engineer | YASP | YASP (Yet Another Swarm Platform) is a swarm of small robots that function as predator/prey entities. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/jerazdengineer/projects/academic/swarm-robots | 15 |
| Ebrahem Hamdan | TermiGator | TermiGator will recognize undesirable targets and eliminate them. | IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/termigatorr/ | 16 |
| 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. This robot has been featured on Discovery Channel, several major TV networks, and has over 900,000 hits on YouTube. | MIL / IMDL | https://sites.google.com/site/birdbuggy109/ | 1 |
| Josh Weaver, Gautam Dash, Matt Thompson | MILaGator | MIL's quadcopter. | MIL | 2 | |
| Patrick Walters, Andy Gray, Matt Thompson, Navid Shahrestani, Gautam Dash, Forrest Voigh, Nathan Sauder, Paul Launier, … | SubjuGator, UF's Robot Submarines | SubjuGator is an autonomous submarine. Our latest SubjuGator is one of seven that we have built over the last 16 years. Our subs are a past world champions, having won 3 world championships over the last 8 years, and came in second in 2012. | MIL | http://subjugator.org/ | 3 |
| Andres Vargas, Colin Watson, Camilo Buscaron, John Phillips, Andrew Wegener, William Rolke, Andrew Gray | PropaGator UF's Robot Boat | PropaGator is an autonomous boat. The robot and team will compete in its first RoboBoat competition this July. | MIL | http://mil.ufl.edu/propagator/ | 4 |
| Josh Weaver, Gautam Dash | Dune Buggy Swarm Robots | One of a group of Dune Buggy robots. | MIL | 5 | |
| Josh Weaver, Gautam Dash, Matt Thompson | Copter Swarm Robots | We are buiding a swarm of copters, including quad- and hex-copters. | MIL | 6 | |