6.270 Autonomous Robot Competition Team Members:

Bots in Blue - 2000 Aaron Mihalik '02

Team 19 "Love the Treatment" Marisa Kirschbaum '00

Thomas Mack '01

Our first design:

Our original plan was to sort the blocks by color and we spent almost all of our time developing this strategy.

The sorter was implemented with a horizontal sliding mechanism and a color sensor. The sensor was used for determine whether the block was a student or a hacker. The hackers would be placed in the storage area and kept there.

An interesting thing about this design is that the robot can 'score' whether or not it brought the hackers back to the jail.

Assuming that there are hackers in the storage area, then the horizontal pusher could be put in the 'push' position and the hackers would be in possession. Otherwise, the robot could be in the jail with hackers in the storage area and have the horizontal pusher in the 'open' position. In this instance, the hackers would not be possessed.

Birdseye view of the robot:

Pictures of robot:

<picture of completed robot not yet developed>

Our next design:

We completely redesigned our vehicle because we could not get the line following precision that we needed for this sorting mechanism. Our new machine used a 'trapping' technique for grabbing the two near hackers and the two side professors.

Birdseye view of the robot:

Pictures of robot:

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