CS 4970 - Introduction to Intellegent Robotics


In this class we split up into teams and built robots using the MIT Handy Board and technic Legos. For further reference, you can find project outlines and stuff at the class's web site. I was in Team 2.

• Project 1 - Did not do so well in this project, but we completed the task, while half of the teams in the class could not complete the task. The project was to make the robot travel in a square 3 times. This was extremely difficult due to wheel slippage and because we were not given any form of compass sensor. Here is the source code.
• Project 2 - In this project, my team did better than any other team. We scored 5 lights, whereas the next highest team had 3 lights. Of course, this was due in large part to luck, but my team did a really good job. Here is the source code.
• Project 3 - In this project, I think my team did second best. In my opinion, my team did the most innovative project. While every other team simply used encoders for navigation, my team also used landmarks for navigation. Also, I programmed location and direction correction algorithms which proved to help very much, since we got second highest out of 10 teams while our team was using the lowest encoder resolution. Here is the source code.