Mechatronics

Our robot, Salamence! He is fierce

For the final project in MAE 3780: Mechatronics, we were tasked with creating a robot that ran on an ATmega microcontroller and autonomously collected blocks while competing against another robot from our class.

All the code was written in C, and we used a color sensor to determine what side of the board we were on while preventing out-of-bounds movement using QTI sensors. I also designed and bent all sheet metal parts, including the arms and plow.

We ended up doing pretty well, defeating semifinalist robots and even the Grand Champion Robot built by ASML Engineers!

Team Picture
A picture of me and my wonderful teammates, Ethan and Chimdi!

You can find our final report below, plus a video of our quarter-final win!

Battle GIF
Video of one of our matches. Salamence is a beefy robot, so he pushes the others around a bit.

📄 Mechatronics Robot Report (PDF)