Assembly competition of mobile robots

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Assembly competition of mobile robots
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Objectives

• Build several competitors mobile robots (assembly
  includes the mechanical bodies and sensor
  fusion), to find a hidden beacon inside a room.
• Do research and development of algorithms to find
  the beacon before any other robot does it first.

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Procedure
Literature review (September) Programming
Exercise (October) Hardware Assembly
(November) Preventive Troubleshooting
(January) Testing (February) Pre-competitio
n (March) Competition
(April) Preparation for the presentation (May)
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Projects

• TALRIK II Mobile Robot
• An Inexpensive, Autonomous, Programmable, Mobile
  Robot.
• TJ PRO Mobile Robot
• An Autonomous, Programmable, Mobile Robot
• ROBOBUG Mobile Robot
• An Autonomous, Programmable, Six-Legged Walking
  Robot
• MINDSTORM Lego Robotics Kit
• An Autonomous, Programmable, Robotics Invention
  System

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Components

• Robot
• - Sensors
• - Motors
• - Microcontrollers
• Personal Computer
• Control Algorithms and Programming languages
• Infrared transmitter

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Robots
Robobug
Talrik II
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Robots
Mindstorm
TJ Pro
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Skills to be developed by participants

• Work in teams.
• Work in a time schedule project.
• Get familiarized with the operation of a real
  mobile robot.
• Be exposed to mechanical and electronic assembly.
• Learn about sensor fusion.
• Program microcontrollers in a real application.

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Participants

• Team 1 Robot Robobug Team 2
  Robot Talrik II
• José L. Vázquez
  Eduardo I. Ortiz
• Jonathan Rivera
  Jesús Alverio
• Team 3 Robot Mindstorm Team 4
  Robot Talrik Junior
• Bernardo Mudafort Eric Lamboy
• José R. González Noel Cabrera
• Competition Date April 29th, 2000.