Student Projects' Page -- Robotics Course Spring 2001

Course: CS 154 Spring 2001

Instructor (Z. Dodds)
Computer Science Department
Harvey Mudd College
1250 North Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711

Lab Project 1

The Extinguisher (Seema Patel, Joshdan Griffin, and Aaron Boyer)
      MPEG Movie of the extinguisher, Mr. Bizarro, in action (32 MB)

Survivor (Alvin Kou, Brian Shin, Fernando Mattos)

Extinguisher (Andrew McDonnell, Patrick Vinograd)
      MPEG Movie of the extinguisher (untitled) in action (19 MB)

Survivor Part 1 and Survivor Part 2 (Michael Chan, Ben Hulse, Peter Kasting)

Robot Diviner (Zeke Burgess, Ronalee Lo, Bryce Nichols)

Rug Warrior (Woody Hunt, David Ordal, Michael Dickerson)
      MPEG Movie of the rug warrior navigating a maze (47 MB)
      MPEG Movie traveling through the halls of Beckman (20 MB)

Survivor (Soo Young Jung)



Lab Project 2

The Nomad, part 1 and The Nomad, part 2 (Roy Pollock, Greg Matthews, Michael Tapper, Ari Moradi)

The Bug (Alvin Kou, Fernando Mattos, and Brian Shin)

The Bug (Soo Young Jung)

Muscle Wire: version 1 (Ronalee Lo, Zeke Burgess, and Bryce Nichols)

Pioneer (Seema Patel and Ross Luengen)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer taking out its frustration on a wall (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer controlling its gripper for the first time (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer's initial can-finding and grabbing (10.3 MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer (try #0 -- color recognition problems) (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer (try #0.5 -- color recognition problems) (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer (try #1 -- wall problems) (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer (try #2 -- wall problems) (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer (try #3 -- wall problems) (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer (try #4 -- wall problems) (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the pioneer (try #5 -- Hooray!) (?? MB)

From scratch: part 1 (Michael Dickerson, Woody Hunt, and David Ordal)

Survivor! (Patrick Vinograd and Andrew McDonnell)

The Bug, part 1 and The Bug, part 2 (Ben Hulse, Peter Kasting, and Michael Chan)



Lab Project 3

The Extinguisher (Soo Young Jung)
      MPEG Movie of the extinguisher in action (8 MB)
      MPEG Movie of the extinguisher succeeding again (2 MB)
      MPEG Movie again doing its thing (12 MB)

Muscle Wire: part 2 (Zeke Burgess, Ronalee Lo, Bryce Nichols)
      MPEG Movie of the cart pushing itself off a plank (7.3 MB)

From scratch: part 2 (Woody Hunt and David Ordal)

Robocup Simulator League (Michael Dickerson)

The "Predator" (Andrew McDonnell and Patrick Vinograd)

The Rug Warrior (Alvin Kou, Fernando Mattos, and Brian Shin)
      MPEG Movie of the rug warrior following our hallways (20 MB)

Jar Jar! (Roy Pollock, Greg Matthews, Ari Moradi, and Michael Tapper)
      MPEG Movie of Jar Jar extinguishing a candle (2 MB)



Lab Project 4

Lard Lad (Patrick Vinograd and Andrew McDonnell)

The Racer (Zeke Burgess, Ronalee Lo, Bryce Nichols)

The Holonomic Base (Pater Kasting, Ben Hulse, Michael Chan, and Katie Ray)
      MPEG Movie of the holonomic base (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the base drawing a square on a whiteboard (?? MB)
      MPEG Movie of the base drawing a star of the floor of Olin's foyer (?? MB)

Micromouse (Soo Young Jung)