IMDL Robot Demo Schedule IMDL = Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory
Media/Guest Robot Demos: Thur, August 5, 2004, 2:00pm in the NEB Rotunda  REU =   Research Experience for Undergraduates
Designer's Name Robot's Name Robot Description Affiliation   #
Tsang-Wei (Dan) Huang BillyBall Bot BBB will find the basket, line up with the basket, and shoot a nerfball into the hoop, hopefully. Then it will move randomly in the open court, avoiding obstacles, and wait for me to give it the ball. IMDL http://www.ecel.ufl.edu/ ~thuang/EEL5666/ 1
Jay Cushing Atlas Atlas is a mapping robot.  He will track the perimeter of a room and wirelessly transmit data to a laptop.  The laptop will generate a map of the room. IMDL http://plaza.ufl.edu/ jaycush/ 2
Matthew Koenn FIR (Feline Interaction Robot) FIR will play with cats using a string.  After finding a cat, FIR will move towards it, moving the string in an enticing manner. REU http://www.cise.ufl.edu/ ~mkoenn/reu.html 3
Stephen Corbett Gimp Gimp will search for an open flame, move to a position close to the open flame via two legs and extinguish it. IMDL http://plaza.ufl.edu/ blue1412/ 4
Jeffrey Cohen Fupa Fupa will follow a high contrast line and stop at cans placed along track. Fupa will then analyze the color of the can it stopped at, and light up the corresponding colored LED.  Also, FUPA will knock over all red cans with an extending arm. IMDL http://plaza.ufl.edu/ gtlax25/FUPA/ 5
Kosala Kodikara NavBot The robot will map a room and plus a single simple object in the room . The robot will transimit the informtion back to user and the user can give commands to the robot. IMDL http://grove.ufl.edu/ ~kosala/navBot/index.htm 6
Chris Conger 2-Inch Worm 2-Inch Worm will climb up trees and telephone poles, then climb back down and tell you how high it got. IMDL http://www.hcs.ufl.edu/ ~conger/imdl/2inch.html 7
James Greco Robo Hoe A worker will spray down a line for Robo Hoe to follow and dig along. REU http://plaza.ufl.edu/ ~jimgreco 8
Salman Siddiqui BoB the Builder Bob will scan its environment, go to the nearest object, pick it in its shovel and then head towards a designated dumping area to dump it. It will return to its original location to pick up some more. IMDL http://plaza.ufl.edu/ fraudia 9
Arturo G. Codina balBot balBot is a two-wheeled self-balancing robot that will roam around a room while maintaining his balance. IMDL http://www.eeturo.com/ eel5666c.htm 10
Tuan Vu Moneta Moneta has a multifunctional platform allowing her to perform different tasks. The task she will demonstrate is foraging. She will search for colored objects, grab them with her grippers, then bring them back home to her nest. REU http://mil.ufl.edu/~tuanv/ 11
Robert Lee F.L.A.M.E FLAME (Fire Locator And Mechanized Extinguisher) will detect if fire is present and attempt to extinguish it. IMDL http://plaza.ufl.edu/ roberto/  12
Daniel Wolkenfeld Stalker Stalker is a standing robot which balances on two axial wheels (side by side).  Stalker uses a pyro sensor to detect mammal body heat.  When a heat source is detected, stalker will attempt to follow it until it stops moving for some time.  Stalker stands about a meter in height and is a "life sized" robot with a colorful glowing head which turns red when it loses its balance. REU http://www.iit.edu/ ~wolkdan/ summer_2004_reu/ stalker.html 13
Enrique Irigoyen MightyMouse MightyMouse is designed to compete in micromouse robot competitions, where the objective to solve an arbitrary maze of 16x16 units squares. The objective is to find the center in the least amount of time. The starting point is one of the corners. REU   14
Keith Stegath Gropenator Gropenator, a 5 degree-of-freedom robotic arm, will track and maintain a prescribed distance from an object in the 3-dimensional space surrounding it. REU http://plaza.ufl.edu/ kstegath/ 15
Cyrus Abbaschian Staple-It Staple-It will navigate a 2-D surface and insert staples along a heated wire without any human interaction.  Abstractly, this simulates stapling a surgical incision. IMDL http://plaza.ufl.edu/ cyrusa/ 16
Bryan Davis MARVIN MARVIN (Mobile Autonomous Roving Vehicle with Integrated Navigation) will receive commands wirelessly from a master computer to move to an arbitrary location in a room. If any obstacles are in his way, he will attempt to go around them and still reach the requested location. IMDL http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/ ~bryan/marvin/ 17
Robert Fennell Cabby Cabby is an autonomous taxicab robot.  Cabby can follow a street and drive to the desired location that is spoken to it.  Cabyy also can distinguish red and green signs and act accordingly. IMDL http://plaza.ufl.edu/robfen 18
Kaveh Nowroozi ToPSoR ToPSoR will drive around a play area looking for toys (represented by mini soda cans) to pick up and then set them in their appropriate color coded bins placed around the perimeter of the play area. IMDL http://www.cise.ufl.edu/ ~knowrooz/eel5666/  19
Kevin Kane Card Shark Card Shark plays blackjack by driving around and reading the dealers cards and his cards. It then makes places bet acording to its best play stratagy. IMDL   20
Aaron Matthews ProCoBot ProCoBot will search for a coffee cup.  When it finds one it will determine whether it will pour cafinated or decafinated coffe into it by the colour of the cup.  It will also know if it needs coffee or not by measureing the amount of liquid in it. IMDL http://plaza.ufl.edu/ amathews/ 21
Danny Rodriguez Sharp Sharp is an autonomous mapping robot. It uses a pair of optical mice to keep track of its position. IR sensors will allow for wall following, and a large LCD Display on the top of the robot will allow the room to be drawn. REU http://mil.ufl.edu/~danny/ 22
Jim Greco, Alan Melling, Nathaniel Walizer, Aaron Chinault NOMAD NOMAD is a six wheeled-robot similar to the Sojourner vehicle that explored the surface of Mars several years ago. REU http://mil.ufl.edu/ ~nathanw/roboter/rover/ 23
Paul Dutka, David Kallenborn, Chris Takahashi, Nathaniel Walizer Guyver  Guyver is a talking head that can also understand a limited vocabulary. REU http://plaza.ufl.edu/ dutkaman/guyver/ 24
Nathaniel Walizer The Tagbots The aptly-named Tagbots are little five-and-a-half-inch diameter, three-inch-tall robots that will putter about, playfully cornering and evading each other, playing the delightful and timeless game of Tag. REU http://mil.ufl.edu/~nathanw/roboter/ 25
Rolando Panez, William Dubel, Alex Silverman, Karl Dockendorf, Johnny Godowski, Enrique Abdon Irigoyen, Brian Pietrodangelo SubjuGator This robot and the team will be in San Diego during the demo and thus unable to show the robot. REU/MIL http://www.mil.ufl.edu/ subjugator/ 26