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Winners of the first round
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Finishers of the second round
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An important area of robotics research is to enable the robot to cope with its environment whether this be on land, underwater, in the air, underground, or in space. An autonomous robot is a robot that performs behaviors or tasks with a high degree of autonomy, which is particularly desirable in fields such as space exploration, cleaning floors, mowing lawns, waste water treatment and delivering goods and services. With every passing year, researchers have raised the bar for autonomy in robots to a level that could not be imagined 60 years ago when the idea of the first mobile robot was under inception. From landing on comets to performing surgery under no supervision, autonomous robots have proliferated and touched the human society in almost every walk of life. This competition aims to bring together a group of students at Iowa State University to compete and demonstrate their capability to lead this field in the future.
Time: December 6th, Sunday, 6:50 - 8:30 pm
Location: Applied Science Complex 1, Room 232
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Groups
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Can't Chegg this Project:
Aric Hanson
Collin Schmidt
Ryan Singletary
David Mellang
Thomas Bezdichek Pfaning
Austin Hillinger
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Four 2 Fun:
Adam Woelberg
Tanner Boudreaux
Morgan McCarthy
Jake Crow
Dewey Song
Yujin Park
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Skynet:
Robert Bromberek
W. Eric Style
Dalton Jacobs
Stephen Aniger
Blake Wuorenma
Michael Pircon
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Remote Controllers:
Andrew Atwood
William Rockman
Preston Norville
Parker Uphoff
Connor Condon
Kaleb Ten Haken
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Infinite Loop:
Toan Nguyen
Travis Dierickx
Jamie Wernimont
Ryan Henderson
Kevin Houlihan
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NARCAR:
Taylor Wisgerhof
Derek Rose
Anna Kinzel
Conner Converse
Layne Goertz
Alexander Nowysz
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Schadenfreude:
Matt Klein
Jordan Krug
Adam Weber
Mark Mendick
Tim Onstot
Ryan Vanderhoff-Yarbrough
Erik Quinn
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Amateur Crew of Mechanical Engineers:
Evan Hammer
Jacob Davis
Andrew Gude
Juhoo Lee
Sean Dowd
Tyler Hoovestol
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Project Description
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Using the manuals provided to you, attach the QRE1113 analog line sensors and the high speed servo to the BOEBot kit. The manuals provide you a basic knowledge of the Arduino language which is used to program the microcontroller ("brain of the robot"). You have to learn the language, and write/design/develop programs with it to control your BOE Shield-Bot. Now here is a challenge for you. In the competition, you will be given a track. You need to create a program with everything you have learnt from the manuals that will guide your BOE Shield-Bot to autonomously follow the track. For that, your have to design a controller of your choice that can keep the robot on the track. Moreover, your robot should be able to complete the track in the least possible time for you to win the competition!
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Objective
- Get familiar with Arduino and programming
- Learn to use servos and simple sensors
- Implement simple controllers on robots
Tasks
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Program the BoeBot to compete in the line following competition
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Design controllers for the robot for better performance
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The robot should start at a point on the track and follow the track for one lap
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You need to design controllers for the robot to finish one lap in minimum time
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Competition Results
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Rank
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Team
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First Round: Best Time
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Second Round: Result
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| 1st Place
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Infinite Loop
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29.7 seconds
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Unfinished
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| 2nd Place
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Remote Controllers
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33.1 seconds
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Unfinished
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| 3rd Place
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Can't Chegg this Project
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42.6 seconds
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Succeeded
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| 4th Place
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Amateur Crew of Mechanical Engineers
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50.8 seconds
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Unfinished
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| 5th Place
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Schadenfreude
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55.9 seconds
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Succeeded
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| 6th Place
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Skynet
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58.3 seconds
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Unfinished
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| 7th Place
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NARCAR
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1 minute 0.1 seconds
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Unfinished
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| 8th Place
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Four 2 Fun
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1 minute 52.1 seconds
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Succeeded
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Activity Calendar
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| Date
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Activity
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Grading Rubric
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Meeting Time with TA and Place
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| Sept 3rd
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Form groups of 5 or 6 students and inform TA of group members
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2 pts
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| Sept 18th
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Collect BoeBot and all hardware from TA
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1:20 - 5:00 pm, Applied Science Complex 3, Office 114
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| Sept 20th
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Send the team's name, logo and webpage link to the TA
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3 pts |
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| Oct 6th
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Finish the first 4 tutorials
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3:00 - 5:00 pm, Applied Science Complex 3, Office 114
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| Oct 20th
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Finish the 5th and 6th tutorials
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3:00 - 5:00 pm, Applied Science Complex 3, Office 114
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| Nov 17th
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Finish all tutorials and implement basic controller for line following
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10 pts
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3:00 - 5:00 pm, Applied Science Complex 3, Office 114
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| Dec 5th
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Improve the controller to get better performance
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3:00 - 5:00 pm, Applied Science Complex 3, Office 114
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| Dec 6th
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Final competition
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1~5 pts
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