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Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8/25
First class meeting 4:00p - 5:50p ECEB 1002
Initial Web Board Post due 11:59p
9/1
Second class meeting 4:00p - 5:50p ECEB 1002
Early Project Approval due 4:45p
Laboratory safety training due 11:59p
CAD assignment due 11:59p
9/8
Add/Drop Deadline due 11:59p
Third class meeting 4:00p - 5:50p ECEB 1002
Project approval due 11:59p
9/15
First team meetings with TAs 4:00p - 5:50p ECEB 3081
Soldering assignment due 6:00p
Proposals due 11:59p
Team Contract due 11:59p
Proposal Review Sign-up due 11:59p
9/22
Proposal Review 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TAs
Initial Conversation With Machine Shop (required if using the shop) due 4:00p ECEB 1047
Proposal Review 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TAs
Proposal Review 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TAs
9/29
PCB Review 3:00p - 5:00p ECEB 3081
10/6
Breadboard Demo 1 8:00a - 6:00p WIth Instructor and TA
Breadboard Demo 1 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TA
Breadboard Demo 1 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TA
First Round PCBway Orders (MUST PASS AUDIT BY TODAY) due 4:45p
10/13
Design Document due 11:59p
Teamwork Evaluation I due 11:59p
Second Round PCBway Orders (MUST PASS AUDIT BY TODAY) due 4:45p
Last day for revisions to the machine shop due ECEB 1048
10/20
10/27
Breadboard Demo 2 8:00a - 6:00p 2070
Breadboard Demo 2 8:00a - 6:00p
Breadboard Demo 2 8:00a - 6:00p 2070
11/3
Third Round PCBway Orders (MUST PASS AUDIT BY TODAY) due 4:45p
Individual progress reports due 11:59p
11/10
Fourth Round PCBway Orders (MUST PASS AUDIT BY TODAY) due 4:45p
11/17
Mock demo During weekly TA mtg
Demonstration Sign-up opens
Demonstration Sign-up opens
Presentation Sign-up opens
Presentation Sign-up opens
Mock demo During weekly TA mtg
Mock demo During weekly TA mtg
Mock demo During weekly TA mtg
Mock demo During weekly TA mtg
Team Contract assessment due 11:59p
Demonstration Sign-up closes
Presentation Sign-up closes
11/24
Fall Break
Fall Break
Fall Break
Fall Break
Fall Break
12/1
Final Demo 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TAs
Demonstration
Yu: 2072
Final Demo 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TAs
Demonstration
Fliflet: 2072
Final Demo 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TAs
Demonstration
Fliflet: 2072
Demonstration
Kumar: 2072
Mock Presentation With Comm and ECE TAs
Mock Presentation With Comm and ECE TAs
Extra Credit Video Assignment due 11:59p
12/8
Final Presentation 8:00a - 6:00p With instructor and TAs
Presentation
Fliflet: 2072
Final Presentation 8:00a - 6:00p With Instructor and TAs
Presentation
Fliflet: 2072
Final papers due 11:59p
Presentation
Kumar: 2070
Presentation
Yu: 2074
Lab checkout 3:00p - 4:30p With TA
Award Ceremony 4:30p - 5:30p ECEB 1002
Lab Notebook Due due 11:59p

Amphibious Spherical Explorer

Kaiwen Chen, Junhao Su, Zhong Tan

Amphibious Spherical Explorer

Featured Project

The amphibious spherical explorer (ASE) is a spherical robot for home monitoring, outdoor adventure or hazardous environment surveillance. Due to the unique shape of the robot, ASE can travel across land, dessert, swamp or even water by itself, or be casted by other devices (e.g. slingshot) to the mission area. ASE has a motion-sensing system based on Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and rotary magnetic encoder, which allows the internal controller to adjust its speed and attitude properly. The well-designed control system makes the robot free of visible wobbliness when it is taking actions like acceleration, deceleration, turning and rest. ASE is also a platform for research on control system design. The parameters of the internal controller can be assigned by an external control panel in computer based on MATLAB Graphic User Interface (GUI) which communicates with the robot via a WiFi network generated by the robot. The response of the robot can be recorded and sent back to the control panel for further analysis. This project is completely open-sourced. People who are interested in the robot can continue this project for more interesting features, such as adding camera for real-time surveillance, or controller design based on machine learning.

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