UGEB2303 Robots in Action
Term 2, 2019 – 2020
Final Project Guidelines
Aim: The goal is to design a strategy in controlling the robotic arm with several challenges.
Your team will be rated against other teams. Assessment is referred to both team
presentation (30%) and online competition (70%).
Challenge 1: Propose an Arduino program that can distinguish different disk patterns as
shown in Fig. 1. Under the proposed program, a corresponding pattern on the disk should
stop under the sensors with a specific input number sending to the controller. For example,
given that number “1” is the input, the disk should stop when pattern 001 is under the
sensors.
Fig. 1: Define 7 different patterns on a disk.
Challenge 2: Propose an Arduino program such that robot arm can draw a dot or short
curve inside Ring 1 (as shown in Fig. 2).
Challenge 3: Propose an Arduino program such that robot arm can draw a closed curve
between Ring 2 and Ring 3 (as shown in Fig. 2).
Challenge 4: Give an input to the controller such that the robot arm is in the photo gesture
(as shown in Fig. 3).
Fig. 2: Index of rings on the sketchpad.
Fig. 3: Photo gesture.
Team Presentation (2:30PM, Apr. 22, Zoom)
• Objectives: Describe your feeling when you are in an online robotic lab; outline
the difficulties in the process of designing/programming; highlight the
solutions/algorithms that you have proposed.
• Time limits: 10 mins presentation + 2 mins Q&A
• Slides submission: Send the PDF version to
[email protected] (Deadline:
Apr. 21, 11:59PM)
• Remark: The order of teams to give the presentation will be decided by a lucky
draw; The number of people as speakers is free to choose.
Online Competition (2:30PM, Apr. 29, Zoom)
• Time limits: 10 mins
• Maximum number of trials: 2 times (You can restart from the middle if the robot
has passed the previous challenges)
• Completion of challenges (40%):
Challenge 1: 15%
Challenge 2: 5%
Challenge 3: 15%
Challenge 4: 5%
• Speed (10%)
• Peer review (20%): Evaluate the performance of you and your teammates, with
cumulative 20 marks.