Updates and
ASME Contest
January 31st, 2013
Overview
• Notes from communication with international
teams
• ASME Robot Design Competition
• Current Tasks
Notes
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Ordered cargo tubes: robot must fit inside
Played with Sphero
Talked to Hungarian and Korean teams
Who should work on what robot (and how
many total?)
• Korea wanted to make one themselves to get
practice, and one in collaboration with
Georgiapest
Notes
• Each subgroup has specialty but works mainly on
their own robot?
• Hungary wants to make a flying robot (awesome)
• Appears that Georgia, Kumoh, and Budapest
teams have similar interests:
• mainly mechanical design/construction and control laws
• secondarily in electrical hardware and programming
• Indian team has experience in all areas (as is GT)
Notes
• Narrow down to a few designs and evaluate?
• How to choose design? Vote? Have everyone
fill out an evaluation matrix and average it?
• Someone take notes during meetings
• Should Korean and Indian teams try to Skype
in to our meetings? Might be obsolete if we
are splitting meetings
Google docs
• Switch to the google docs file:
Link
ASME Student Mechanism and
Robot Design Competition
• For this competition, a mechanism is defined as:
– Any device that transmits a force or a motion to
perform a mechanical task. It may consist of rigid or
deformable bodies connected with kinematic or
flexural joints. It may be constructed of any type of
materials, including smart and other active materials.
It may be actuated by means of any transduction
principle and employ any form of energy input. The
size of the device can range from the nano-scale to
macro-scale.
ASME Student Mechanism and
Robot Design Competition
• https://sites.google.com/site/asmesmrdc/home
ASME Student Mechanism and
Robot Design Competition
• For this competition, a robot is defined as:
– An electro-mechanical system which, by its
appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it
has intent or agency of its own. A robot should be
able to do some or all of the following: move around,
operate a mechanical linkage, sense and manipulate
their environment, and exhibit intelligent behavior,
such as behavior that mimics humans or other
animals. The size of a robot can range from the
nano-scale to macro-scale.
ASME Student Mechanism and
Robot Design Competition
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Letter of Intent: March 15
Written Report: April 19
Notification to Finalists: June 3
Final Round: August 4-7
• https://sites.google.com/site/asmesmrdc/home
Tasks
• Contact the Yellow Jackets Flying Club:
http://www.yjfc.org/
• Create "bump" test
• Generate lots of concepts for next week
– Must be somewhat realistic
– Need good, detailed representation of concept to be
able to compare with other concepts
– Break-out the sketching skills