EGN1935 ECE Adventures

EGN1935 ECE ADVENTURES

Team ClutchRobot: Zeus

Team Members: Zhechao Qiu, Martin Wilson, Jimmy Nesselroad,

Alex Motola

Jimmy Nesselroad Year: Freshman Major: Switched from Civil Engineering

to Finance Gained basic knowledge on electrical

engineering topics, such as circuits and sensors

UF Plans & Goals: Graduate in four years Summa Cum Laude

Career Plans & Goals: Enjoy life and what I do, whatever it may be.

Words of Wisdom: Have fun with life.

Q Year: Freshman Major: Electrical/computer engineering I’ve learned more about the theories

and tools which electrical engineers use and apply.

This course has helped me to get a clearer picture of the electrical engineering department and some of the research opportunities within it.

Q (cont.) Plans/goals: Graduate with a BS in

Electrical engineering with a minor in computer engineering. Attend graduate school at a premier engineering college.

“What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.”

Alex Motola Year: Freshman Major: Switched from

Business/Marketing to Electrical Engineering

Taking this course has enhanced my desire to pursue a career involving machine intelligence.

Now that I have an idea as to what classes I should take in the future I will be able to continue the path to a specialization in the machine intel field.

Alex (cont.) In the future if I haven’t come up with

some sort of innovation or come up with a prototype that I can market I’ll apply to law school. The way I see it if I can’t build my own robot I’ll just paten one.

If I have to leave behind any words of wisdom for future students they would be “Don’t Sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”

1st Year Freshman I was originally an ECE major I am in EGN1935 to find out what I can

do as an ECE major I found out I can work on robots like

Subjugator, the MAV, and the DARPA vehicle

I learned how to use the oscilloscope and some basic code flow.

I plan to graduate with an EE major and a Sales Engineering minor

Martin Wilson

Martin (cont.) My goals are to be on one of the robotics

teams. A career goal is to work for Lockheed or a

similar company. Words of wisdom: get an on campus job

in something you enjoy if possible.

Video

Design Methodology

We designed our robot with robustness and simplicity in mind.  Instead of timing the maze and programming the robot specifically for this maze we programmed the robot for basic obstacle avoidance.  In regards to simplicity, we made the code short and elegant.  We removed all the excess code and only included what the robot needed to traverse a maze. 

Codeif(Channel_3 > 205) then Right for 10000else if(Channel_1 > 45 and Channel_0 > 45) then Rightelse if(Channel_1 > 45 and Channel_2 > 45) then Leftelse if(Channel_0 > 85) then Rightelse if(Channel_2 > 85) then Left else Forward

Code (cont.) Our final code was only 6 lines and it

made it through the entire maze (the only problem was the threshold for light sensitivity was set slightly too low, and too high for the second trial).

Team Conclusions If it doesn’t work the first time, unplug,

and try it again. The theory doesn't always match up with

reality. No matter how meticulous the plan,

Murphy’s Law always takes effect. Don’t give up. Get your engineering

degree because whether or not you use what you learned, you will always have a job in today's society.