2010 Qualification Video

This is the video we sent off to get qualification in the International Robocup competition.

Intro to Mobile Robotics Course Demonstration

This was our final exam for the course "Intro to Robotics". The assignment was to find the red ball, trap it, then kick it into the blue goal. We started off having one robot on the field at a time to perform "shoot-outs", but later on we experimented by putting some goalies on the field.

Obstacle Avoidance (Chris)

During this experiment, the robot knows there is a ball directly in front of it, the only problem is that there is an obstacle blocking its path. The idea is to get around the obstacle, then get back onto the original path so it may find the ball. Once to ball is located, the robot must kick it into the goal.

This particular robot was made by Chris Hewell. It gets around the obstacle by measuring the obstacle's width. Width is measured by sweeping the ultrasonic sensor over the object. Once object width is found, the robot calculates a path around it using a modified version of Pythagorean Theorem. This will put the robot back on its original path to find the ball. When the light sensor detects the ball, the kicking mechanism springs forward.