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Project Briefing

Prof. Wing-Kin (Ken) MaDepartment of Electronic Engineering

March 17, 2014

ENGG 1100 Introduction to Engineering Design

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• 30% of the overall score.

• Three tasks to deal with• Basic Task: 15%• Challenge Task 1: 10%• Challenge Task 2: 5%

• Either Challenge Task 2.A, or Challenge Task 2.B

• Demo date: April 14 (Monday)

Project Challenges

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Basic Task

(a) The testing board with the robot and CAN1 (b) magnetic strips under the testing board

Figure 1: The testing board for the basic task

Figure 2: A CAN with magnetic strips placing on the side and a piece of iron placing on the top

DST

START

CAN1

Magnet strips

A piece of iron

INP1

Youtube video: http://youtu.be/dy_u7lxMkTY

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• The path must not be a straight line.

• The angle between the starting point and destination should at least be 30 degree.

• The starting point and destination must on the boundary of the testing board and at different positions.

• Each group should prepare their own testing board.

• The whole process should be completed automatically without anyone’s intervention.

Some Constraints with Basic Task

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• Picks up two cans.

• Youtube video: http://youtu.be/-ze2rwpXVXY

• The constraints are more or less the same as those in Basic Task. Read Project Description for details.

Challenge Task 1

(a) (b)

Figure 3: Examples of the testing board in challenge task 1

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Challenge Task 2.A• Picks up three cans. Also, the path must intersect itself once and only one

time. The other rules are again more or less the same as before (read Project Description for details, again).

(a) (b)

(c) (d) Figure 4: Examples of the testing board in challenge task 2.A

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Challenge Task 2.B• Same as Basic Task, but with difficult-to-pick-up objects.

• Prepare your own objects, totally two (must be differently shaped).

• More challenging the objects the robot can handle, the higher the score it will be expected.

(a) Sphere (b) Cone (c) Square bi-pyramid (d) Snub cube

Figure 5: Examples of objects to be picked up in challenge task 2.B

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• MC Quiz today, 11:30am• AM session: in lab; PM session: in lecture

• The First Mentor-Mentees Meeting:• Write Progress Log, this time on your design proposal.• Understand the project challenges (oh did I just brief you?), and

present to your mentor your proposed design.• You don’t have much time to impress him/her. Make good

preparation, talk high-level design aspects.• Zero preparation (e.g., has not written Progress Log, late) = zero score

• AM session only: Labs should be open by now. Don’t wait for 9:30am!

Reminders Again!