Carrick Detweiler

A few weeks back we had a competition for my Embedded Systems Course (CSCE236).  The students had to interface their robots with line detecting sensors and implement algorithms to follow the lines on a variety of courses.  There were four different courses, three of which they were given before the start of the competition.  One had thin smoothly curving lines, one had thin lines with angles, one had very wide lines, and one was a mystery course.  They were graded not only on the completion speed, but also on how smooth they operated.  Below are some pictures and videos from the competition.

If you turn too fast you don’t get very far at all…

A little back we worked with held a workshop with UNL Robotics and Dance students to create mini-performances with dancers and robots.  This was inspired by a performance by Pilobolus at the Lied Center.  I had previously worked with them and others while I was at MIT to help create a modern dance performance with quadrotors.  Here is a story about it from the Big Ten Network