1. Welcome to Applied Robotics
    1. Course Information
  2. Assignments
  3. Groups
  4. Past Years
  5. Current Admins
  6. Lecture Times
  7. Lab Times
  8. Lecture Slides
  9. Ideas for Future Years

Welcome to Applied Robotics

This project houses lab documentation and resources for ENGR 421/521, Applied Robotics.

The course syllabus.

The form you'll use to request group members is here

Class List with name, E-ddress, and major

Groups will be provided a lab kit to get them started.

Robots are devices that can sense their environment, reason about the acquired information, and act on their environment. This course is a multidisciplinary hardware project design experience in which small teams of electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science students deliver an end-of-course demonstration of a final robotic system. Throughout the semester, the students configure, design, implement, test and evaluate in the laboratory a succession of mechatronic devices and subsystems culminating in the final integrated system. Lectures during the first half of the quarter will complement the laboratory experience with comparative surveys, operational principles, integrated design issues, and brainstorming associated with the spectrum of mechanism, electronics, and control components. Lecture coverage includes information needed to complete the main project: mechanisms, motors, motor drives, sensors, interface circuits, microcontroller programming, and control.

This year, multi-disciplinary teams will design and build robots to play a variant of shuffleboard against one another.

Course Information

  • Project Rules and Specifications:
    • TBD
    • Puck Specifications:
      • Mass: 384 grams
      • Diameter: 2.25 inches
    • Board Specifications:
      • 88"x16" Table
  • Puck must be fully in the scoring zone to obtain points. If puck is on the line between two scoring zones, then it will receive the lower of the points possible.
  • Useful Links for Parts and Materials:

Assignments

Groups

  • All groups should have access to their web site folder. You may map a network drive in Windows to \\farm\classes\engr\spring2012\engr521-001\public_html\gp1 for group 1, gp2 for group 2, etc., and you can create your group's web site there.
  • In Linux, from a terminal: scp <file to transfer> <engr username>@access.engr.oregonstate.edu:/nfs/farm/classes/engr/spring2012/engr521-001/public_html/gp1 for group 1, etc
  • If you have permission issues when browsing your webpage, ssh into the above server and use "chmod a+r" on your files.
  • Group 1 - James Prestwood, Jacob Wells, Michael Eastwood, Andrew Peekema
  • Group 2 - Joel Torgison, Ian Harsey, Tim Niedermeyer
  • Group 3 - Benjamin Cox, Caleb Calkins, Jerin Rajan
  • Group 4 - Jesse Abel, Galen White, Tasha Larson
  • Group 5 - Gavin Lorenzen, Sean Mayes, Eric Fletcher
  • Group 6 - Drew Skeels, Steven Sills, Atil Iscen, Joshua Temple
  • Group 7 - Robert Simpson, Brandon Jackson, Greg Alexander, Kelsey Fisher
  • Group 8 - Hyung Lee, Josh Simmons, Cody Hyman
  • Group 9 - Adam Rahrer, Jose Terrazas, Jimmy Drebin
  • Group 10 - Brandon Fry, Mike Archbold, Kyle Hollis
  • Group 11 - Daniel Piorkowski, Brandon Haley, Tanner Alberts, Kris Schneider
  • Group 12 - Andrew Detering, Devin Mooney, Zachary Luther
  • Group 14 - Jonathan Jackson, Paul Larson, Andrew Borth

Past Years

  • 2009:
    • ME 414 - a few of the project pages (under "resources") are still active.






Current Admins

Lecture Times

Tuesday/Thursday 4:00 - 5:20pm (Until Lectures are concluded, then this will be extra lab time)

Lab Times

You can come work in the Covell lab anytime you wish, and at least one TA will likely be in the Covell lab at the following times:
Tuesday 12:00 - 1:50pm
Tuesday/Thursday 4:00 - 5:20pm (After lectures are concluded mid-term)

Lecture Slides

Ideas for Future Years

  • Crossfire
  • Let's go Fishin'
  • Marbles
  • Solve a Rubik's cube
  • Skeeball
  • battleship (actually launch foam balls over a wall)
  • Beer pong, where the robot gets some handicap as its drunkenness increases
  • bocce ball
  • Robot wars: Ant Scale
  • Pong/Air Hockey, or some variant, using a simple setup (so we don't need 6 air hockey tables)
  • Tank battle - each person uses a small pellet gun or laser gun, and has a detector of some sort on their robot
  • castle wars: Launch foam balls to knock over your opponent's block castle and hit their cannon

This project is licensed under the GPL 3.0

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.

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