Spring 2018

Spring 2018 Muhammad Rashid Best Project Award winners.

Spring 2018 First Place

Design of a Fully-Autonomous Robot Platform
Team Members
Asma Al-Selwadi, Steven Lewis, Oanh Nguyen
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Mohamed Khabou
Abstract
The IEEE Southeastcon Hardware Competition dictates that a fully-autonomous robot platform will be simulating the role of a pirate with the purpose of reading a treasure map and successfully completing its journey to retrieve the treasure chest. The robot will initially be placed onto its “pirate ship” where it will receive an IR signal that determines the path that the robot must follow. At various points of the path, the robot will have mechanical tasks, such as pushing a button, applying pressure to a pad, raising a flag, and finally lifting and storing the “treasure chest” and bringing it back to the ship.

Second Place

Design of a Wall Painting Robot
Team Members
Christopher DeLauder, Andrew Jones, Stephen Proud, Sam Cobb, Jacob Rea, Kayla Riley
Faculty Advisor
Mr. Richard Landry
Abstract
The capstone team designed an interior wall painting robot. The robot was built to a ½ scale and was able to paint a ½ scale mock-up room with walls 4 feet in height and 8 feet in width. The wall painting robot consists of a mobile robot base equipped with a painting mechanism and paint sprayer. The project assumes basic preparations will be completed beforehand, such as the moving of furniture to the center of the room, the masking of trim and the laying down of appropriate drop cloths.