The 2017 Competition
For our ENPH 253 course, our instructors challenged us to build a fully autonomous robot that could navigate a course and perform a series of challenges.
Each robot had two minutes to rescue six trapped secret agents (bath toys) by avoiding an alarmed door, scaling a narrow ramp, rescuing the agents from platforms above a bucket of water and finally sending the agents back to safety down a zip line. The agents also drop into the water beginning at 60 seconds. During each run, a robot receives 1 point for each agent rescued from the bucket and 2 more points for each agent sent down the zip line. A run performed by our robot The Wee Baby Seamus can be seen in the video below. |
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The Wee Baby Seamus Performing a Perfect Run - 18 points
Design
Seamus is filled with ambitious mechanical and electrical design. Please explore their individual pages to understand the design decisions we made.
Before we started any fabrication work, we put together a design proposal which outlines our initial ideas for the robot.