Can Collection Competition
Known as the "Eng Phys Robot Summer", our program hosts a robot competition in the summer of our second year. Due to the pandemic, however, the competition is fully online. We are tasked with building a robot capable of picking up cans with materials and tools we can find at home.The robot will follow any tape path to pick up cans in different orientations. The electronics are standard, and the microcontroller is the STM32 Blue Pill.
Electronics
My main role on our team is designing the electrical system. We decided to house the microcontroller and the power management system in a central box. The maincontroller checks for tape signal, and has a routine to raise the arm and collect the can when a can is detected via infrared reflection. We also used a comparator and potentiometer to implement a simple battery level indicator.
