Robot Project Overview

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Robot Project Overview
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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.
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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.
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Tips / Suggestions
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• 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?

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

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• 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

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• Next step
• Determine distance to object

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• 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

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Questions ?