16-311 Lab 8Wheel Free

Lead TAs: Joon-Hyuk Han

Josh Yu

ASSIGNED: Tuesday, April 7, 2014DUE: Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Challenge Statement Build a tele-operated mobile robot

capable of:

Moving around quickly Without Wheels! Be faster than your peers

Cross a hurdle

Hurdle? Wheels won’t cut it here

Although if you are sufficiently clever they probably could, but don’t do it!

So you’ll need to try something else!

Legged Locomotion

4 bar linkages are pretty useful

Demo- Time Trial/Mobility For demo day, we would like you to:

Race through a predetermined course as fast as possible to demonstrate mobility. (“Time Trial”)

There will be a shortcut with 2 hurdles that may help significantly cut down on your time.

The top 4 fastest teams will have a chance to face-off simultaneously more points and bragging rights Only the top team will get a full score of 100

Try your best not to hit any walls

Course

The Hurdles 2” hurdle that is ok to touch

We’re using bricks!

Constraints Robot must not have any wheeled locomotion

Treads count as wheeled locomotion!

12” x 12” x 18” size constraint

Robot will be tele-operated This should not be difficult – you all did USAR

Additional Requirements Creativity Bonuses

Additional points to be awarded, based on your votes Categories:

Innovation Practicality Cool factor Personal favorite

Lab Webpage Your team is required to submit a lab webpage, similar to your homeworks Details must include:

Group name Photo of team with robot Explanation of design with photos