6/09/05

                                                                                                        Dima Haddad

                                                                                     

                                                                                                TAs:  William Dubel

                                                                                                        Steven Pickles

 

                                                                                      Instructors:  A. A. Arroyo

                                                                                                         E. M. Schwartz

 

 

 

University of Florida

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EEL 5666

Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory

 

Weekly Report 5 (6/09/05)

 

All parts for the robot are in my possession as of Monday June 6th.

This includes the following:

                     

  • 2 IR Line Tracking Sensors (Version 2.0 and 3.0) from Lynxmotion
  • SRF04 sonar proximity sensor
  • 4 Hacked Futaba Servos (continuous rotation)
  • 4 Rubber wheels with pre-cut plastic base
  • CMU Cam (Seattle Robotics)
  • LCD (4X20)
  • Atmega128 Board

 

Up to date I have the robot platform built, and the IR sensors mounted to it (Pics available on website).  Still trying to find away to mount the sonar.  I have also configured the layout of the power board on a breadboard am trying to copy it over to the Eagle program so I can PCB it sometime soon.  I am still working on the program to run my servos and my IR sensors.  Hopefully the IR will be a little easier now because I changed their placement from the side to the front of the robot. 

 

For this weekend I hope to work on the servos to get them moving and the IR reading right so the robot can stay within a lane (two solid whit lines). 

 

 

 

P.S. Just wanted to inform anyone that has not bought rechargeable batteries yet and is going to use them, that Lowes has a great price on the energizer battery with 2500 mAh.