Course: GE 423 – Introduction to Mechatronics

Instructor: Dan Block

Final project: Our Amazing Robot --- Bug Bot

Group member: Christopher Co, Eric Uskali,

Tony Grinstead, Bin Li

VB Interface Photos of Our Robot Video

VB Code DSP Code

Introduction:

Hey, I assume that you have already seen the photos of our robot. The robot is pretty

Cool, isn’t it? The robot has a pair of ‘eyes’, and two ‘swings’, and what a bug bot!

Now, I introduce more to you about our robot’s eyes and swings.

Eyes: We use RC-Servo as the robot’s eyes. The two servos control our gripper to pick

up the empty soda-can. Our gripper is simple, but very useful. With the front IR-sensor

installed in the gripper, the robot can sense the can position, open the gripper, grab the

can and close the gripper…

Swings: They are very interesting parts in our robot, which are used to get the golf

balls in the course. With the camera image, the robot will sense the orange golf balls.

Depend on the right / left wall following, the robot will open left / right swing to get

the ball, and after getting it, the swing will be closed, and the robot will move on. More

funny thing is, the robot will close one side swing, meanwhile, it will open the other side

swing to get the ball in certain position. You can notice that in our video, which we will

upload pretty soon.

That’s it, and enjoy in the space of our Bug Bot!