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Team Members: Greg Luker and Monica Morales

The main goal of this project is to plot a picture on a piece of paper using an ActivMedia robot with a pen and the necessary hardware attached. Essentially we want to build a plotter/printer that, given coordinates, plots a picture, hence the project named RoboPlot Potential applications include parking lot painting and tile laying.

Experimental Demo 1

Experimental Demo 2

Team Members: Robert Mabey, Lizabeth Lee, and Scott Lefgren

The object of this project is for one robot (wanderer) to wander throughout a given area and another robot (tracker) to find the moving robot. Once the wanderer is found, the tracker will follow the wanderer and will call three other robots (waiters) to converge to the wanderer.

Experimental Demo #1          Experimental Demo #2        Experimental Demo #3 

Team Members: Nathan Jack, Taylor Hoenes, and Tyson Jensen

The purpose of this project is to develop an understanding of the challenges involved in autonomous formation control of multiple robots. For our project, we designed a robot control system which acquires the velocity and position information of a driving robot which it uses to track this robot in a side-by-side manner. This algorithm can be used for automated formation control of mobile robots. Wewere able to accurately follow a driving robot in a side-by-side manner by controlling only the translational and rotational velocity of the following robot.

Experimental Demo

Team Members: Kelly S. Lewis, Toby Johnson, Bob Silver, and Jacob Hatch

This project consists of designing and building a flying autonomies robot. The robot is designed to use three propellers to lift the robot into a hovering position. The goal for this project is to have the UAV hover five feet from the ground in a stable flight.

Experimental Demo

Team Members: Aaron Woodcox and John Cutler

We began this project with the following questions How can we remotely control a robot consisting of a rover and five-axis arm? How can the existing systems be modified to provide a more efficient and effective means of robot control? What changes must be made in our attempt to further the development of the robotic rover and arm? What kind of a project will provide us a challenging and enjoying opportunity to learn and also allow us to gain important electrical engineering experience?

Experimental Demo

Team Members: Mark Short, Douglas Sorenson, and Kelcey Loveland

The objective of this project is to add some sensors to a sumo 11 robot, and develop new functionality for the robot that will incorporate the new hardware. Once completed a demonstration should be performed to show that the additions were a success.
 

Experimental Demo

Sponsored by Ball Aerospace

Overview: Two autonomous robots are placed in a ring. Robots try to avoid driving out or being pushed out by the opponent. The robot that remains in the ring wins the round.

2007 Teams:

Team 1: Jed Peters, Dustin Braithwaite, and Robert Hughes

Team 2: Zane Larsen, Dan Zundel, Justin Ball, and Ryan Tensmeyer

Team 3: Kurt Niederhauser

Team 4: Varsha Bhambhani, Yongcan Cao, Shrinidhi Kaveri, and Rupa Pawanna

Team 5:

Competition Demo from 2006 Teams (Courtesy of Jared Bench, Nathan Sorensen, Austin Jensen, etc.)

Team Members: Eric Eborn and Cannon Melville

The objective of this project was to build a GUI interface for controlling a mobile robot that used the arrow keys for control and simultaneously produced a visual representation on the screen of the robot and the room in which the robot was placed. This GUI program was also designed to make a rough mapping of the room using its sonar sensors.

Experimental Demo 1

Experimental Demo 2

Team Members: Jonathan Meikle

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the knowledge gained through both the
Mobile Robots and Multivariable Linear Controls courses by implementing a
configuration control of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots. Aptitude will be
demonstrated by designing and implementing the controls to properly operate such a
configuration.

Demo 1                   Demo 2