1. IEEE SoutheastCon Robot

2. IEEE ROBOT -IEEE national competition
Mission: To engineer a fully autonomous (12”x12”x12”) robot capable of navigating and completing specified tasks within a field of size (8’x4’)
-IEEE national competition
-FIT won in April, 2017
-First time as a senior design project

3. Winning Robot

6. Some Robot Requirements
The robot is relatively small (< 12”x 12” x 12”)
It is a challenge to fit into this footprint the mechanisms required to complete the tasks
The robot is autonomous
It is un-tethered, and no communication with the robot is permitted during a trial
This year’s robot learns one of several paths to follow from an encoded start signal (IR)

7. The Field The robot navigates on a 4’ by 8’ field
The team builds their own test field complete with various actuators, sensors, electronics, code, etc.
The field may have multiple vertical levels
Often there are CG considerations for the robot
E.g., this years robot must climb a ramp while carrying a two-pound weight that it picked up

8. IEEE Robot -Tasks and rules will be announced next Wednesday
-decided by the hosting institution
-Tasks in the past:
-shooting a nerf dart through a hole
-picking up and transporting a 2 lb. weight
-picking up and moving blocks into bins of corresponding colors

9. Ideal Team
The ideal team would include EE, ME, CS students with prior robotic experience
Valuable ME skills: CAD, fabrication, “mechanical” ideation
Valuable CS skills: dead reckoning, or more sophisticated navigation coding, Raspberry Pi
Valuable EE skills: circuit design, motor-control, using servos, microcontrollers

10. Florida Tech’s IEEE Robot 2017

11. Contact Information
Nathan Kilgus – Team Lead Tseganesh Menore Gabrielle Pelletier Mmusi Motsumi Nam Nguyentang Salem Alrashdi