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30 Amphibious Spherical Explorer
Area Award: Controls
 Junhao Su
Kaiwen Chen
Zhong Tan
 Luke Wendt design_document0.pdf
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The amphibious spherical explorer (ASE) our team is building is mainly for outdoor adventure. The ASE will have no difficulty traveling in water, swamp, dessert, and land due to its spherical shape and pendulum driven principle. Comparing to most robots, ASE will be more versatile since it could travel under most circumstances. As for the other spherical robots, ASE is more adaptable because of its flexible yet enduring shell and at the same time we are aiming to design a better control system to solve the balance issue.

The ASE will be implemented using dual-actuator design consisting of one DC motor and one Servo motor, magnetic encoder, gyroscope, micro-controller, WIFI chip and etc. Specifically, we have decided to build this to be a general-purpose robotic platform as we are planning to leave an I2C bus to interface corresponding interchangeable modules designed for diverse tasks and various usages. The control signal will be sent from PC to the explorer, and the data collected by the task module are transmitted back to the users for debugging. The entire communication process will be accomplished through WIFI.

Our team members have had fair amount of experience in Embedded programming & Control system design, Mechanical CAD, and PCB design which will be efficient through the project building process.

Team members:
Kaiwen Chen (kchen70)
Zhong Tan (zmtan2)
Junhao Su (jsu10)

Drum Tutor Lite

Zhen Qin, Yuanheng Yan, Xun Yu

Drum Tutor Lite

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Team: Yuanheng Yan, Zhen Qin, Xun Yu

Vision: Rhythm games such as guitar hero are much easier than playing the actual drums. We want to make a drum tutor that makes playing drums as easy as guitar hero. The player is not required to read a sheet music.

Description: We will build a drum add-on that will tutor people how to play the drums. We will make a panel for visual queue of the drum and beats in a form similar to guitar hero game. The panel can be a N*10 (N varying with the drum kit) led bar array. Each horizontal bar will be a beat and each horizontal line above the bottom line will represent the upcoming beats.

There will be sensors on each drum that will fire when the drum heads is hit. The drums will be affixed with ring of light that provides the timing and accuracy of the player according to the sensors.

Of course with a flip of a switch, the drum could be a simple light up drum: when the player hits the drum, that particular drum will light up giving cool effects.

The system will be on a microprocessor. Or for more versatile uses, it could be connected to the computer. And a app will be written for the tutor.

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