I have included a video of the robot progressing through the course. The final documentation for this class was a paper which I will not bore you with a link to. The video is more interesting. I designed and built the drive system, and bot body for proper mounting of all necessary electronics, and assisted with the electronics and coding.

The competition was a speed competition for who could load the most balls into each bucket. The robot starts in an unknown orientation in the red tape box. There is an IR light that can be used to orient itself. The bot can have a maximum of four balls loaded onto it. The bot must then travel to and drop balls into two of the three available baskets. The basket heights could vary depending on if your opponent had scored any balls before you.

Teams could choose how they delivered balls into the buckets based on what they thought would win the competition. We chose line following. Others used ultrasonic positioning based off the walls. Some tried launchers that would simply shoot the balls from close to the initial position. Our robot made it through the first round of the competition but did not win.