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EGN1935 ECE Adventures

EGN1935 ECE Adventures. Team Clutch Robot: Zeus Team Members: Zhechao Qiu, Martin Wilson, Jimmy Nesselroad , Alex Motola. Jimmy Nesselroad. Year: Freshman Major: Switched from Civil Engineering to Finance Gained basic knowledge on electrical engineering topics, such as circuits and sensors

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EGN1935 ECE Adventures

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  1. EGN1935 ECE Adventures Team Clutch Robot: Zeus Team Members: Zhechao Qiu, Martin Wilson, Jimmy Nesselroad, Alex Motola

  2. Jimmy Nesselroad • Year: Freshman • Major: Switched from Civil Engineering to Finance • Gained basic knowledge on electrical engineering topics, such as circuits and sensors • UF Plans & Goals: Graduate in four years Summa Cum Laude • Career Plans & Goals: Enjoy life and what I do, whatever it may be. • Words of Wisdom: Have fun with life.

  3. Q • Year: Freshman • Major: Electrical/computer engineering • I’ve learned more about the theories and tools which electrical engineers use and apply. • This course has helped me to get a clearer picture of the electrical engineering department and some of the research opportunities within it.

  4. Q (cont.) • Plans/goals: Graduate with a BS in Electrical engineering with a minor in computer engineering. Attend graduate school at a premier engineering college. • “What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.”

  5. Alex Motola • Year: Freshman • Major: Switched from Business/Marketing to Electrical Engineering • Taking this course has enhanced my desire to pursue a career involving machine intelligence. • Now that I have an idea as to what classes I should take in the future I will be able to continue the path to a specialization in the machine intel field.

  6. Alex (cont.) • In the future if I haven’t come up with some sort of innovation or come up with a prototype that I can market I’ll apply to law school. The way I see it if I can’t build my own robot I’ll just paten one. • If I have to leave behind any words of wisdom for future students they would be “Don’t Sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”

  7. Martin Wilson • 1st Year Freshman • I was originally an ECE major • I am in EGN1935 to find out what I can do as an ECE major • I found out I can work on robots like Subjugator, the MAV, and the DARPA vehicle • I learned how to use the oscilloscope and some basic code flow. • I plan to graduate with an EE major and a Sales Engineering minor

  8. Martin (cont.) • My goals are to be on one of the robotics teams. • A career goal is to work for Lockheed or a similar company. • Words of wisdom: get an on campus job in something you enjoy if possible.

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  10. Design Methodology • We designed our robot with robustness and simplicity in mind.  Instead of timing the maze and programming the robot specifically for this maze we programmed the robot for basic obstacle avoidance.  In regards to simplicity, we made the code short and elegant.  We removed all the excess code and only included what the robot needed to traverse a maze. 

  11. Code if(Channel_3 > 205) then Right for 10000else if(Channel_1 > 45 and Channel_0 > 45) then Rightelse if(Channel_1 > 45 and Channel_2 > 45) then Leftelse if(Channel_0 > 85) then Rightelse if(Channel_2 > 85) then Left else Forward

  12. Code (cont.) • Our final code was only 6 lines and it made it through the entire maze (the only problem was the threshold for light sensitivity was set slightly too low, and too high for the second trial).

  13. Team Conclusions • If it doesn’t work the first time, unplug, and try it again. • The theory doesn't always match up with reality. • No matter how meticulous the plan, Murphy’s Law always takes effect. • Don’t give up. Get your engineering degree because whether or not you use what you learned, you will always have a job in today's society.

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