Description

Y-Clops* is an autonomous robot designed by a twelve man team of BYU electrical engineering undergraduates. It is designed to navigate obstacles for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). These obstacles include pot holes, sand traps, cones, fences, and staying within a track outlined by white lines.

To win this competition this robot uses three main components:

• Camera for data collection
• Computer for interpreting the data
• Electric wheelchair frame for navigation

BYU's IGVC Robotic team will be building and perfecting Y-Clops until the competition in June.

* The name Y-clops comes from a BYUed version of the name Cyclops, which is a mythical monster with one eye. Last year all of BYU's robots used only a single sensor, or "eye".

Specs

31" wide, 37" long, 60" tall (to camera, 69" to GPS antenna) 250 pounds (estimate) Equipped with: 2 Cameras 2 rubber tracks 2 12 volt car batteries 2.8Ghz Dual-Core Pentium D Computer Digital 3-Axis Compass GPS Receiver Wireless Emergency Stop Quadrature Wheel Encoders

We will also be fitting yclops with a custom-designed fiberglass shell. This is the concept design.

Latest Progress

Ready to take on the world...of lines and cones.

What a cool-looking chaise...er, chassis!

Working hard and hardly working. At least Y-clops is working!

Of course, where would we be without Dr. Lee and his wonderful, supporting family?

The Y-clops team has developed three separate algorithms for navigation. Here we're testing our barrel-avoidance code.

Yclops is now mechanically sound and out for testing!

The Second track has been mounted on Y-clops. Now testing of our design can begin!!

The whole team poses for a picture with Y-Clops, now that it has its first track mounted and it's looking photogenic.

Creative way to see if the wheel chair motor has enough speed and torque.

The testing of the power supply on our wheel chair batteries. The tests show it is good to use.