IMDL Summer 2000 Final Papers

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Robot Creator Description Final Paper
Setter
Nzinga Augusto No description yet sailbot.pdf
Viper
Richard Burns Model car that navigates simulated roads viper.pdf
Fire Fighting Tank
Donald Cheung Fire fighting tank finalreport.pdf
Rusty Wonder
Jeff Davis To detect temperature and tell you if he is hot, cold or comfortable finalreport.pdf
C Source code
Psychic
Erick_Garcia To find the maze exit finalreport.pdf
AutoCAD files
TJProNav
James Gualario Smooth wall and line following rangerover.pdf
C source code
AutoCAD files
Sharlo
Paul Hart Cleans floor using handheld vacuum cleaner; follow walls or randomly move about the room; turns off when floor is clean finalreport.pdf
C source code
AutoCAD files
Kisa
Cynthia Manya Kisa is an entertaining cat-like robot that has four legs and uses heat, force, light, and proximity sensors to realize its behaviors. It can also generate cat sounds. kisa.pdf
BART
Mark McCardell COMING SOON!!! B.A.R.T. is a Bartending Autonomous Robot. BART will wander aimlessly around a room looking for people. When he finds a person he will pause to see if the person needs a refill. If so, the patron places his cup on top of BART and BART will refill the drink! stuff
A-Train
Nathan Nipper A-TRAIN is an autonomous robot train that follows train tracks in the form of a dark line. A-TRAIN resembles an actual train with a locomotive, cargo car, and caboose. The robot uses micro-switches, photocells, infrared detectors and a ptentiometer to provide the processor with information about the environment in order to properly execute behaviors. The potentiometers allow the train to back up like a trailer. The photocells provide the ability to see the train tracks. If no tracks are visible, A-TRAIN will navigate around trying to find a track to follow. The micro-switches and infrared detectors allow for obstacle and collision avoidance. a-train.pdf
High Five
Jack Peach No description yet hi5.pdf
Short Fuse
Greg Porter No description yet shortfuse.pdf
Squirtle
Chris Seiffert No description yet squirtle.pdf
Squirtle
Andrew Sinclair The Mars Microlander Prototype Precursor (MMPP) is the first step toward designing a prototype Mars lander. It uses the same rocket engines, microwave sensors, and computer as the the lander. Report.pdf
Nav-bot
Chris Thomas The Nav-bot is an autonomous robot that uses a compass to perform navigation. The compass headings are used to compare the current course to the desired course and then the robot makes adjustments accordingly. navbot.pdf
Skippy the Firefighting Robot
Warren Thornton, Jr. No description yet skippy.pdf
Smurf
Boris Yaw Smurf is an autonomous small object manipulating robot. It was designed to fit into a cylinder 7 inches in diameter and 4 inches tall with a retractable arm that extends about three inches outside of this cylinder. Smurf is designed to pick up an object, and carry this object in its gripper to another location. Ideal objects would fit in a 2 inch cube and weigh less than 8 ounces. Smurf uses 5 servos(1 sub micro servo for the grippers and four standard servos, two for propulsion and two for arm motion) Smurf is controlled using a 6811 microcontroller and uses bump switches, IR, CDS cells and a microphone to preform either random searches w/object avoidance, or line following in order to locate small objects and move them. smurf.pdf

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