This is the course page for ME 184; a broad review of theoretical and applied aspects of robotic manipulators and mobile robots. Statics, kinematics, dynamics, actuation, sensing, sensor fusion, trajectory planning and control with hands-on applications.
This was the final project for my advanced robotics class. Our goal was to design a robot that could take in an image, process it, and then recreate it on paper. The method we decided to use was that of a mobile printer – the wireless device goes through the image one pixel at a time starting with t…
For my senior design project, my group was tasked with building a way to provide professors' and students' with an indoor storage option for their bicycles. We followed an in-depth design process, eventually building an elevated storage system mounted on the wall in the Bray Laboratory, one of the…
For this project, my team and I created a myRio-powered car that could be controlled by a tilt-sensing remote. The remote contained a second myRio, which has an accelerometer inside of it that can sense which direction the Rio is being tilted in. This allowed us to write a program that would spin…
For this project, my team and I used Solidworks modeling to design an amusement park ride. Our ride, the 'Turtle Twister', is able to swing back and forth, as well as rotate, all the while making sure that its passengers don't experience more than 3 g's of acceleration so as to ensure their safety.…
This project was for my Machine Design class. We were given a template to work with, with holes in the upper left, bottom left, and bottom right corners, with the bottom two holes to be fixed and a 4 pound force to be applied downward at the top hole. The template can be seen in the image below. We…
For my introductory class on computer tools for engineers, we spent a lot of time learning how to use Microsoft Excel's Visual Basic Editor to write complex spreadsheet formulas, as well as form coding. For my final project, I decided to create an interactive, Harry Potter-themed quiz game on…
This was my final project for my Engineering Materials class, and was a culmination of all the information and data on materials we had learned throughout the course. I researched several materials commonly used in prosthetic limb design, and then selected which ones I would use to construct a leg,…
This is essentially a new and improved version of the original Image Processing Arm I built, only with a much improved hardware system, a modified code, and a new way of importing the picture. One of our main issues with the previous arm was that it was fairly unstable, so I completely rebuilt the…
This is essentially a new and improved version of the original Image Processing Arm I built, only with a much improved hardware system, a modified code, and a new way of importing the picture. One of our main issues with the previous arm was that it was fairly unstable, so I completely rebuilt the…
This project was for my class on Music in Engineering. This was one of my favorite projects, as it combined my interest in design with my passion for music, and allowed me to create a brand new type of instrument. I worked with a team to design the hardware for a completely acoustic instrument (no…
For this project, we were tasked with designing a robot attached to a camera that could take a snapshot of a drawn letter, process the image, and then send the image to a robotic arm that would subsequently draw the letter. In order to solve the problem, my partner and I attached an external webcam…
This was my final project in my introductory mechanical engineering class from Freshman year about the fundamentals of electronics in music production. I really enjoyed this class because it combined by interest in mechanical design with my passion for music, and for my final project, my team and I…
As a follow up to the letter drawing bot, we were tasked with creating a bot capturing a drawing created by a user and replicating it. Our first attempt to solve this problem used continuous image capture and processing to track the user's motion as they drew their image. The interface consisted of…
Robotic Car controlled with steering wheel. MyRio's were used for car and wheel. The wheel position is found by using the MyRio accelerometer and PWM values for continuous servos are sent using shared variables to the car's onboard MyRio. Link to LabView…
Charlie McQuinn, Matt Rothstein, Trevor Vassallo, Harry Brown -This project utilizes 2 MyRio devices to act as a remote controlled car. The accelerometer data of one is used to control the motors of the other to move the car. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_qxHkNl9Ow2TEk1ZThTUl9maWs
For this project we used two myRIO's to construct a steering wheel that controls a car. For the steering wheel we utilized the accelerometer to obtain positional data which was then send to our car through shared variables. The car read the steering wheel data int he form of duty cycles. For…
Liz Fletcher, Scott Barbano, Bobby McLaughlin, Qiaochu Hu In this project, Scott Barbano, Bobby McLaughlin, Qiaochu Hu, and I worked together to create a remote controlled car. The user was able to control the car by tilting the remote forward, backward, right, or left. The MyRio in the controller…
Andrew Narahara, Matt Mueller, Eric Abboud, and James Aronson created this remote control car using the NI myRIO. One myRIO in the "steering wheel" reads in and processes accelerometer data. This myRIO then writes two sets of duty cycles and frequencies to a shared variable. This shared…
This project was a steering wheel remote and car that communicated to each other using two separate NI myRIO processors. The remote read in the angle at which it was being held using an accelerometer and sent corresponding speed and direction values to the car to control the car's movement similar…
