SLUbot (A solution to moving toxic waste autonomously)

Moving toxic waste without human interaction has become a global problem. In response to this problem, the IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition Organizers based this years IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition theme on sorting toxic waste from multiple remote locations. Therefore, the 2008-2009 Saint Louis University IEEE robotics team proudly introduces SLUbot; a robot built by Parks College electrical and computer engineering students. SLUbot is designed to meet the specification provided by the IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition Organizers and will be competing at the competition on April 18, 2009 in Lubbock, TX. The course that the robot must traverse is an 8 by 8 field with a 1 by 1 center square composed of evenly divided red, blue, green and yellow squares. The task assigned is composed of moving colored casks from the corners of the field to the predetermined corresponding center positions based on color. The design of the robot has been split into five modules: high-level control system, low-level control system, sensors and interfaces, power system, and the chassis/wheels/mechanical arm.

More Information can be found at:

http://csss.slu.edu/~ieee_robot

SLUbot is a prototype of a land-based robot which can autonomously transport toxic containers from multiple locations to a remote processing area. Due to the high risk of human infection, it is desirable to transport waste from multiple city sites to a remote processing facility using autonomous unmanned transport.

SLUbot must visit all 4 corners and transport all 4 cargo containers to their correct positions based on color, but the desired order of visitation will be decided once the robot is placed on the course...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SLUbot
• robot
• Saint Louis Univeristy
• Parks College
• Electrical
• Computer
• Engineering
• IEEE
• Region 5
• Robotics
• Edin
• Rakovic
• Adam
• Baltz
• ieee_robot

[rakovicedin]

We were, it just didn't function as well... We came back to SLU and finished it completely...

[UHRobotics]

Why were you guys not at the competition?