SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2009 Southeastern Conference (SECON) Hardware Competition Bull · E

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Outline  Problem Specification  Our Solution  Timeline  Design Constraints  Environmental  Manufacturability  Technical Constraints  Future Work

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Problem How long? 4 minutes How big? Maximum robot dimensions: 12 ” x 12 ” x 18 ” Astroturf field dimensions: 10 ’ x 10 ’ How many? 1 to 3 labeled plastic bags 5 aluminum cans 10 recyclables 3 plastic bottles 2 glass bottles How much? Correctly sorted can or plastic bottle = 15 points Correctly sorted glass bottle = 30 points Incorrectly sorted recyclable = 5 points [1] {

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department The Field [1] The Recyclables Total 1.1 lbs 16% available volume

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Our Solution

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Our Solution

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Timeline AugSeptOctNovDec Boundary Detection Acquisition Locomotion Object Detection Test/Debug/Assembly Projected

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Timeline AugSeptOctNovDec Boundary Detection Acquisition Locomotion Object Detection Test/Debug/Assembly Actual

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Environmental  Robot cannot damage items  Cans/bottles may only suffer structural dents  Glass may not be shattered  Robot cannot damage the field or other robots

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Manufacturability: Modularity  Team A  Acquisition  Locomotion  Object Detection  Boundary Detection  Team B  Object Discrimination  Navigation  Storage  Sorting

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Modularity: Team A  Acquisition Arms  Locomotion  Object Detection  Boundary Detection

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Modularity: Team B  Object Discrimination  Navigation  Storage  Sorting

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Modularity

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Technical Constraint Status ConstraintStatus Minimum SpeedExceeds DimensionsCompliant Power EfficiencyExceeds AcquisitionCompliant Boundary DetectionIn Progress

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Minimum Speed  Distance covered: 120 ft  Round length: 240 seconds (4 min)  Theoretical ideal conditions  0.5 ft/sec (6 in/sec)  Real world conditions  10 in/sec  10 seconds for sorting/storing  Constraint test  Fully loaded robot

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Size Maximum Size L x W x H 12in 18in 12in

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Power Efficiency Battery Specifications Voltage Out: 14.8V Current Out: 4800mAh

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Acquisition

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Boundary Detection

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Future Work  Boundary detection  Final chassis  More intelligent IR sensing  Sonar range finder  PCB  PIC integration

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department References [1] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Southeastcon 2009 Hardware Competition: The Recycling Robot, 2008 August 28, tCon-2009-Hardware-Rules.pdf. Accessed September 26, 2008.

SECON Team A Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Questions