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2005 Senior Project Robots
In January of 2005, four teams from BYU began work on a new Senior Project - to design and build a vision-guided autonomous robot. Each team consisted of five electrical and computer engineering students who would have just three and a half months to demonstrate a functional robot. Students solved mechanical design challenges, exercised creativity in meeting budget constraints, and experimented with powerful image processing techniques to design their robots.
The robots below are the product of their innovation.
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Sirius |
Clancy |
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Eye of Sauron |
Urckbot |
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In April the teams brought their robots to a course on the BYU campus to compete. Each robot was required to navigate within white boundaries and avoid obstacles such as barrels, cones, and potholes.
The Urckbot won the BYU competition and the team immediately began preparations for the international IGVC competition in June. The robot was upgraded to support GPS navigation and the team fine-tuned the obstacle avoidance algorithms and control systems.
2005 International IGVC Competition
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The 2005 IGVC Team and their robot, Urckbot. |
A view of the IGVC course in Michigan. |
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The 2005 team placed 5th in the autonomous navigation competition. This success is extrordinary considering that BYU's first entry in the competition edged out other robots form schools which had competed for several years.
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