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RoboVette is an autonomous small-scale police car designed and built for the Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory course at the University of Florida. This robot enforces the speed limit by pulling over vehicles that have been caught speeding. RoboVette accomplishes this by waiting on the side of “the road” and continuously clocking the speed of oncoming vehicles. When a speeder is detected, RoboVette pulls out from its hiding spot and commences to pursue the speed offender until the vehicle is pulled over. The brains of the robot is an ATxmega128A1 microcontroller used to control a pair of motors and to communicate with a variety of sensors necessary for speed detection and pursuit. Infrared (IR) range-finders are used to detect speed while remote control IR transmitters and receivers are used to track the speeding vehicle once it has been detected. Ultrasonic range-finders are also used to avoid certain obstacles while moving as well as to determine the distance to the speeding vehicle that is being chased. Using the data acquired from all these sensors, RoboVette is able to detect and pursue traffic offenders who do not obey the speed limit.