In this class I worked on an multi-disciplinary team of engineers to build a robot. Our robot was tasked with locating a target, navigating toward said target, picking it up, and dropping it off at a designated way point, while staying within a designated boundary zone.
I addition to helping with the mechanical aspects of this project, I learned C programming and coded some of the robot's sensors which kept it on track, and on course while navigating towards the target.
The blank canvas.
Ultra-sonic range finder (the eyes) used to detect target (metallic cylinder), and IR sensors pointed at the ground (the legs) used to keep robot from straying outside designated boundaries.
Pincher/Jaws used to grab the cylinder when found.
Motorola 32-bit microprocessor & breadboard (the brains).
Servo motor driving the jaws.
