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Welcome!!!

Hello, there! We are a group of four fourth-year electrical engineering students here at the University of Calgary. This page is dedicated to our team design project, a fire-fighter robot!

The Games

As you may or may not already know, the Western Canadian Robot Games are held annually at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. There is a web page devoted to these games, and can be found here. We will be participating in these games this year!

The Trinity College also hosts an annual fire-fighting home robot contest. The contest will be held for the seventh time on Sunday, April 16, 2000. They also have a web page.

The complete set of rules and regulations can be found on either web pages.

The Project

The four of us have chosen the fire-fighter robot as our team design project. This project is a two-semester, eight-month project, going from Sept, 1999, to April, 2000.

The project has two phases. The first phase required us to design a robot that is capable of following walls by Dec 2, 1999. On that day, a driving test was held in our department, with our robot "competing" against robots from three other groups of students. Here's the good new: our robot did extremely well! And the bad new........well, there was none! :)

The second phase of the project is rather obvious, we need to further develop our robot so it's capable of finding the candle in a maze and putting it out.

The Details

The details of the robot can be found on this page.

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Feb 9, 2000: A Detailed-Design Document for our project was prepared. The report contains all the details required to do a solid implementation. It is broken down into several section with each section describing each component of our robot.

Please click here to download a copy of the document.

(Note: The authors of this web page maintain all copyrights of the document provided above.)

March 2, 2000: Driving test #2, our robot was put in a small maze to demonstrate its ability to look for, enter, and search a room. Our robot also demonstrated that it was capable of driving towards a candle and stop at a distance that would allow it to extinguish the candle.

March 9, 2000: Robot pictures added. Please click here.

April 4, 2000: Robot pictures added. Please click here and here.

Last Modified: April 4, 2000
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