| Robot | Creator | Description | Final Paper |
| Roo | Aaron Seudmeyer | This was an experiment to build a hopping robot. Roo hops about 6 inches high and the same forward using a spendle system and rubber bands. Roo also changes direction using a rotating base. The behavior is to hop toward IR. |
Roo.pdf |
| Snarf | Amy Purkey | I entered into the IMDL Spring 1998 competition. I used wall following to navigate around the arena. I used a scoop to pick up items and dump them in the bin. | Snarf.pdf |
| Evil Bug | Andor Almasi | The Not So Evil Bug is a six-legged mobile platform designed to walk and climb/descend high obstacles. The bug is controlled by two HC11s, one for servo control, another for everything else. The current behaviors consist of object-avoidance. | EvilBug.pdf |
| Alf | Barry Rodgers | ALF is based on a TALRIK platform. It uses 4 IRs, 3 photocells, and 3 bump sensors. It is programmed to perform dynamic collision avoidance, light following, habituation, and adaptation. |
Alf.pdf |
| Little Ranger | Dan Kucik | Little Ranger is an autonomous robot that detects land mines and marks them with spary paint for later removal. | LittleRanger.pdf |
| Juggernaut | Edmund Loftus and Scott Shamblin | The purpose of Juggernaut is to assist in the rescue of combat pilots forced down in enemy territory. |
Juggernaut.pdf |
| Scout | James Houben | Scout is an autonomous mapping robot which uses wheel encoders and a pan-tilt sensor array to complete its task. It maps a room and stores it into memory so that a map of the room can be printed out. |
Scout.pdf |
| Guido | Joe Reyenga | Two legged walker using the 68HC12 microcontroller from Motorola. | Guido.pdf |
| Sisyphus | Kenneth Wiant | Sisyphus is a robot designed for the IMDL contest. It is designed to look around an arena for objects, grasp them with it's claw and carry them to the appropriate bins in the center of the arena. | Sisyphus.pdf |
| SCARAB | Marc Stracuzza | SCARAB stands for Search, Capture, And Rescue Air Boat. SCARAB is a air boat designed to locate a distress beacon. SCARAB avoids obstacles while searching for a sonar signal. When the signal is detected, it is homed in upon and located. |
SCARAB.pdf |
| AHAB | Mark von Oven | A.H.A.B. stands for Autonomous Hot-Air Balloon. It is an autonomous hot air balloon which has object avoidance and also performs search-and-rescue using IR. | Ahab.pdf |
| Odin | Michael Apodaca | Odin is a six-wheeled robot that is designed to handle climbing of small obstacles and avoidance of large obstacles. WobbleHead is the charging station that allows Odin to charge his batteries when they become low. WobbleHead is a cylindrical shaped and axial actuated charging station. Both WobbleHead and Odin actuate themselves to line up their charge jacks for docking. |
Odin.pdf |
| Igor | Michael Rowland | Igor is a robot which was designed to enter the IMDL competition. |
Igor.pdf gp2d05.pdf |
| KOCATKA | Paul Taylor | KOCATKA is a 7' X 2' X 2' blimp robot powered by two small propellars with infrared as sensors. This robot explored the feasibility of flying robots. |
KOCATKA.pdf |
| Magu | Richard Nigaglioni | Have you ever been in an office and needed to take some documents to someone else but you are too busy to get up to take them? Well MAGU could be the first step to designing a robot that can grasp the document and take it to that other person or place. | Magu.pdf |
| Raven | Stephen Tobias | Raven is an autonomous 2-legged walking robot. It's legs have 4 degrees of freedom each, and it uses a tail for balance. It uses infrared detectors for obstacle avoidance. |
Raven.pdf |
| Bob | Steve Stancliff | Bob is an autonomous quadrupedal three degree-of-freedom robot. Sensors are an IR emitter/detector for minimal obstacle avoidance, a mercury switch as a tilt sensor, and a photocell for light-level detection. |
bob.pdf |