EntriesUofT MIE443: RoboPong
This was my final project as a undergraduate student, our team was to design a robot that would push practice golf balls up a ramp and deposit them on to the opponents playing field. They of course will be doing the same thing to us. After two minutes of play, the winner was determined by who had more balls remaining on their side. We unfortunately went 1 for 3 and lost one match by approximately 1/3 of a golf ball. I would say that was a tie given the poor workmanship of the playing field.
I have six pictures before the break, a video followed by another batch of photos. The design is quite ingenious with the rotating sensor arm. The robot is definitely not as fast as some of the other kickers, but it is far more interesting and better designed for the class.
Tags: Lego, MIE443, Pong, Robot, Video
MIE443 RoboGolf Contest
The rules of the game were quite simple: build a robot out of lego parts and off-the-shelf sensors that would pick up a golf ball and deposit in a hole and repeat this several times while another robot is doing the same on the other half of the playing field.
It sounds simple, but the hardware was far from ideal. Sensor threshold values often tripped on smudge on the board and line following wasn’t completely perfect. On our third and final run, we managed to get some success and show cased our autonomous robot to the professor. I hope he liked it and will give us a good grade on the report as well as what we engineered.
For your viewing pleasures, here are a few photos of the robot. We used a total of 6 light sensors (2 for line following, 2 for identifying if a golf ball was captured, 1 to follow the wall and a final one to determine which side of the playing field the robot is on). There is also one touch sensor that gets activated to turn the robot.
Tags: Golf, Lego, MIE443, Robot, University of Toronto
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