Electrical Engineering Senior Project Competition 2007 winners announced
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Electrical Engineering seniors, working collaboratively with a team from Mechanical Engineering, built “basketball playing” robots that competed for the class title on Thursday, April 26, 2007.
Eight teams competed, using robots that made up of one common mechanical platform designed by the ME team, and individual slide-in electronic sensing and control modules designed by the eight EE teams.
Competing teams included:
- Lukewarm Robot and the Dense Shutdown
- Hotbot
- Rock ‘em Sock ‘em
- Oracle
- Team D
- Destroyers
- Ball Hogs
- Out of Time
Robots had to navigate the playing field, shoot balls at the goal, and read infrared signals to receive inbound balls.
Team “Destroyers” tore up the game field to win the end-of-semester competition with a score nearly 4 times larger than the next competitor. The top right picture shows the winning team of Chris Robertson, Ken Crank, and Team leader Christy Thurston rejoicing in their win. In front of them on the playing field are their sensing and control module (the blue box) sitting on one of the standard rolling chasses, next to a full-up version of the rolling chassis that includes the ball shooting mechanism.
Middle picture shows the "guts" of the electronics, including microcontroller, power conditioning circuits, batteries, and sensors.
And the bottom picture shows that even the third-place team “Rock ‘em Sock ‘em” had fun during the semester right up until the end. They also had the robot best-decorated with Gamecock identifiers.
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