RCJ Rescue B. RCJ Rescue B Primary Team Branchburg, NJ USA. Storming Robots in Branchburg, NJ, USA. SR-chitect / Storming Robots

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1 RCJ Rescue B RCJ Rescue B Primary Team Branchburg, NJ USA Storming Robots in Branchburg, NJ, USA 1

2 TEAM MEMBERS - BIOS 2

3 Andre Gou (captain) 13 years old Has done robotics for around 4-5 years Shall be going to Watchung Hills Regional High School and is currently in the 8 th grade. Hobbies include manipulation of drawing tools to create art, table tennis, tennis, Video Games. Love good food.. 3

4 Eric Ward 13 years old Has done robotics for 5-6 years Goes to JP Case middle school and is in seventh grade Hobbies include playing video games, ping-pong, and building robots. 4

5 Michael Xie 12 years old Has done robotics for 4 years. Goes to BRMS and is in 7 th grade Hobbies include playing the saxophone and piano, swimming, and ping-pong. 5

6 What Do We Hope To Achieve In Robotics? By participating in robotics, we hope to learn more about physics, science, programming, building, and math. We want to expand our knowledge. It is fun to make our robot do a human s task! 6

Elizabeth Mabrey- Mentor 7 Founder of the unique Storming Robots Technology Learning Center in Central New Jersey. Received her M.S. in Computer Science Has over fourteen years of system level software engineering experience in the highly competitive software development industry.

7 Elizabeth Mabrey- Mentor 7 Founder of the unique Storming Robots Technology Learning Center in Central New Jersey. Received her M.S. in Computer Science Has over fourteen years of system level software engineering experience in the highly competitive software development industry. Strongly believes in the importance in strengthening computational thinking skill and utilize robotics to build Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics as the core foundation for our academic and intellectual development.

8 HARDWARE 8

9 PLATFORM & MAJOR ELECTRONIC: NXT Controller Brick and servo motors Two Hi-Technic Electro-Proximity Detection sensors One Mindstorms Ultra-Sonic sensor One TPA81 Thermopile Array sensor 9

10 THE ROBOT Omni wheel used to ease turns Synchronous servo motors to control all types of turns. Bot s frame is built with small footprint in mind; although we did not organize the wire to add aesthetic value.

11 Views of the Robot Bottom View Front View Back View 11

12 SENSORS 2 Electro Optical Proximity Detector (EOPD) sensors to straighten and help robot during wall following. An ultrasonic sensor to see walls in front of the robot. 12 A thermal sensor to detect victims on the field.

13 SOFTWARE 13

14 SOFTWARE PROGRAM Robot C 2.26 BETA Deploy Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) algorithm for wall tracing. Two separate tasks 1. Task 1: Handle the PID wall tracing navigation 2. Task 2: Handle thermal reading for victims to set a global boolean switch for victim recognition 14

15 High Level Flowchart 15

16 HARDWARE ISSUES Lacking ports for all of our desired sensors Ultrasonic sensor was inaccurate and slow 16

17 SOFTWARE ISSUES Software algorithm will not be able to handle floating walls due to lack of sensors port and processing power of the NXT Brick. Will mistake obstacle away from wall as floating wall PID program had some fishtailing effect 17

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18 Check us out at our website: click on RCJ Find SR-chitect. Write us at if you are interested in our technical journal which reflect our approximately 60 hours of work. 18

Pre-Day Questionnaire

LEGO Mindstorms Pre-Day Questionnaire Your Age? Please select your age from the options below: a) 11 b) 12 c) 13 d) 14 e) 15 or Older 0 0 0 0 0 11 12 13 14 15&or&Older Good at Problem Solving? Do you think