Mega Robotics: 9 Robots in 6 Days

Concept Session:

• Introduction to Arduino Microcontrollers
• Introduction to Embedded System in the Arduino Environment
• Familiarization with the basic concepts of Robotics
• Getting Used to the Arduino IDE
• Basics of Programming with Arduino
• Basics of Robot Dynamics
• Building the Robot Structure

Practical Session:

• Send commands from your computer to control your robot from your keyboard.
• Develop your own commands and take control!

• Robots which can chase lights.
• Learn the basics of building sensors on your own according to your requirements.
• Configure robots to either chase the light or run away from it.

• Build robots which can detect edges and avoid falling down.
• Develop similar algorithms to avoid pits on your path while the robot is moving in a particular course.

• Build algorithms to set your robots in a defined course and follow it irrespective of any obstacle falling in between your course.

• Build a basic 2 sensor line follower robot
• Learn how to follow a line on a 2 tone contrasting surface.
• Learn how to build the line following sensors and the tips and tricks of tuning them for optimum performance.

• Build efficient and advanced line followers using multiple lines sensing array of sensors and differential speed mechanisms for variable speed control.
• Line following will never be the same again!

• Learn how to channelize motion of human into an efficient remote control system to drive your robots.
• Learn how to build accelerometer based motion sensing robots.

• Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is an in-band telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone equipment and other communications devices and switching centers.
• Learn the basics of DTMF and how it works, and use the technology to create CellPhone controlled Robots and signal them over a telephone call to operate in the direction you wish to.

• Robot-sumo is a sport in which two robots attempt to push each other out of a circle.
• The robots used in this competition are called SumoBots.