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Students Compete in Robotics Design Competition

Posted by Engineering communications on July 20, 2022 in News

Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Action and suspense filled Dalhousie’s Design Commons last week as thirty three autonomous robots competed in the annual Engineering Robotics Design Competition. This year’s event, renamed to the 2022 Gregson Design Challenge, was in honour of the late Dr. Peter Gregson, a former professor from the Faculty of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Throughout the event, groups of engineering students huddled in every corner of the Commons rummaging through piles of tools and preparing their robots for action.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Student teams from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faced off to see whose robot could best navigate the challenging obstacle course.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

This year’s obstacle required robots to autonomously navigate through the course and locate at least three missing “mines”. Once located, robots were required to disarm the mines before physically grabbing the objects and transporting them to a designated location.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Each Spring, students from ECED 3902 (Electrical Engineering Design II) are provided with tool kits to design and build an autonomous robot capable of both navigating the obstacle course and completing a required set of tasks.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

The kits contain basic components including, motors, electronics, LiDARs, ultrasonic rangers, onboard computers and microcontrollers. They are also provided with a small budget to purchase any additional components they’d like to add to their robots. In twelve short weeks, teams of three students put in roughly 350 hours of work to design and build their robots.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

The term projects allows students to asses real world problems and develop the hardware and software required to solve those challenges. Troubleshooting and effective time management are key to building a reliable and robust custom robot. Verification and validation testing also essential in ensuring success.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

The foot-long robots are entirely autonomous and programmed with the capability of navigating the obstacle course on their own, locating the mines, disarming the mines and physical removing the mines to a disposal site.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Throughout the day long competition many robots lost their way within the course. Others trapped themselves in a corner and could not find their way out, while some robots collided with the mines before their were properly disarmed.

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Engineering Robotics Design Competition

Engineering Robotics Design Competition

At the end of the day, four out of thirty three robots were able to find, disarm and remove five of six hidden mines. In the end, team five emerged on top. The winning team included Duncan Cameron, Rehan Khalid and Chidinma Onumadu.

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