Robot Project Overview

Objective:

The goal of this activity is to build a robot that is capable of locating a 2 ft x 2 ft target and launching a ping pong ball into the target from a distance to be specified on the day of competition. The robots should operate autonomously, with as little human interaction as possible.

EE Objectives:

We are designing the vision system for the robot project. We are obtaining visual data for the CSE students. In this case we will be looking for 1 or more IR LED sources.

We will first obtain the X/Y coordinates from the Wii remote then determine a relative distance from the object(s) and transmit this to the CSE students.

Tips / Suggestions

High level thought process:

•What information do we need?

•How do we connect the Wii remote? Multiple Wii remotes?

•How do we get data from the Wii remotes?

•What data do we need?

•What do we need to do with this data?

•How do we send the data?

•Autonomously?

•What do we need to test?

•Stages?

•Etc.

Testing:

•Should be systematic and incrementally

•Should be done on your components and any interactions with other dept.

What have we looked at so far?

•Basic introduction to LabView and its capabilities

•TCP communication

•Connecting 1 Wii remote

•Obtaining Accelerometer data from 1 Wii remote

•Obtaining IR data from 1 Wii remote

•Connecting 2 Wii remotes

•Obtaining IR data from 2 Wii remotes

Next step:

•Determine distance to object

Biggest problems I have seen with group projects:

•Lack of communication

•Not fully understanding what is going on

•No schedule or timeline

•Not enough testing or time dedicated to testing

Questions ?