NASA Space grant
Rancho High School Summer project
June-July 2002
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Theme: Mars Rover Build a terrain going robot that can negotiate past obstacles and find its way to a target destination without outside assistance. |
This year, nine students from Rancho High School in Las Vegas are coming to UNLV's Department of Mechanical Engineering to work on mobile robots.
The students are grouped into four teams. Each team has been given a Lego Mindstorms robot kit, and a PC. The students are designing and testing various robot designs.
At the end of the program on Friday, July 12, we will hold a competition, in which each team's mobile robot will have to negotiate a maze. Each mobile robot will start from the same point, and negotiate the same obstacle course.
The images and movies below were recorded in JPG and AVI formats. The size of the AVI files ranges from 4 to 7 MBytes. Click on the thumbnails for the full pictures (100 to 200 kB file size)
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Team |
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The Robots |
| Benjamin Lock and Victor Villa |  |
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| Mario Bonaventura and Shawn Stamper | 
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| Zach Glanz and Jason Wisniewski | 
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| Allen Estalilla and Anthony Kirk |
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The Maze. Click thumbnail to enlarge.
All robots start on the left side. They must clear the obstacles, and climb over
the ramp seen near the top of the image. The finish line is located at the bottom
righ side of the image.
Movies
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| Benjamin Lock and Victor Villa | |
| Mario Bonaventura and Shawn Stamper Line_Follower 1 (6.1MB) Tracker (6.3 MB) |
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| Zach Glanz and Jason Wisniewski Security vault (6.9 MB) |
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| Allen Estalilla, Anthony Kirk and Derek Bergstrom Driving_Uphill (5MB) |
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| Mario and Shawn's wall hugging Robot (July 11) |
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| Several robots playing bumper cars while finding their way to the finish line (July 11) All files are approx. 6 MB |
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