This web page, as a final report submitted to Physics 253 instructors, records our team's work for this robotics course at UBC during the summer of 2010. This year's theme of the competition is RoboRacers, which is designed for two teams to compete with each other on a track surface and who ever finishes 5 laps first wins the match.
Our robot vehicle (shown in the picture above), named after the tank Sherman, is driven by two motors at the back, controlled by a steering servo and a microprocessor component called TINAH. The body of the robot was designed using SolidWorks and cut and machined using advanced equipments available at the PHYS 253 lab. The team also designed and built the circuits used on the robot, as well as programed the code run by the TINAH. The complete robot was designed and built within 6 weeks, and tuned to its best performance for the competition.
We were fortunate enough to make it to the final match, and finished 2nd place of all 14 teams.
Here we would love to thank those who had helped us during this course:
Andre Marziali, Jon Nakane, Bernhard Zender, and all the Lab TAs. We also wish to thank the sponsors and everyone who made this course happen.
