EE4701 Robotic Design

Welcome

Welcome to the public face of EE4701/EE4702, a two semester capstone design opportunity for senior electrical and computer engineering students. The class aims to be practical and enjoyable while permitting seniors to exercise and refine their design talents. The class is competitive by nature, ending in an organized robotic tournament. Robotics was chosen because the field integrates many diverse disciplines of electrical engineering from electronics to controls to microprocessors. There is no shortage of opportunity for students to apply their creativity and knowledge.

Competition

The competition this year is called "Tiger Scramble". There are two robots on an 8'x6' playing surface, and the object of the competition is to possess three balls simultaneously by placing them into the robots' respective goal area. More details are available on the class web site.

Supporting Equipment

Teams are provided with a budget but are otherwise unrestricted in their choice of robot components. To ease the task of locating objects students are provided with an "eye in the sky" machine vision system that relays object coordinates to the robots via RF communication. This simplifies an otherwise daunting task of local robot vision. Students need not depend on the machine vision nor use it exclusively. It is up to each team to choose the best approach.

2005 Results!!!

Note from the Instructor: Our students did an outstanding job this year, and the final competition was a great success. The class has set a high benchmark for future seniors.

1st Place	The Tank by Jacob and Benjamin Porta
2nd Place	Competitive Inhibiton by Aaron Ard and Jeremy Skipper
3rd Place	Geauxbot by Hannah Hoppenstedt and Joshua Nelson

 

 

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