Nasa LEC Robotic Mining Competition

October 4^th First milestone

Progress Matrix

Team members and Meeting

Abdulaziz Al Badi Christian Haworth

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Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marius Silaghi

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Dates of meeting plans:

Every Wednesday at 11 am

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Design

• ARDUINO is the main source for controlling the subsystems
• A remote control will allow the user to manually send input signals to the computer to then coordinate with the subsystem moving/operating the robot accordingly
• The Sensor will give the ARDUINO information about the surrounding environment so that when the system is autonomous it can detect and avoid obstacles
• The ARDUINO can move the wheels, bucket, turn the system on and off, and move the control arm.

Testing Plan

our team decided to test the robot controls on a simulated level on a virtual environment to ensure that the code will run before testing it physically on the robot

sample testing procedure:

Accomplished Tasks

• Task one:
• Our first task was to understand the code that was left for by the previous team to understand and use as a reference
• this reference was used to decide the simulation program and replica of the physical robot that we would use, this software is the Gazebo virtual environment

Accomplished Tasks (cont.)

• Task Two:
• create a 3D model of the robot, with each wheel set up to be easily programmed(completed)
• The 3D model will perform simple tasks such as moving forward and backwards
• The 3D model will be refined to eventually be refined to directly simulate the physical robot

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Plan for 2nd Milestone

• implementation of controller
• this would come in handy if the full autonomation of the robot is not complete

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• implementation of bucket/conveyor belt
• this will allow us to collect necessary rocks and dump them into the collection site

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questions?