Spring 2023

2S.007 Autonomous Machines

MIT's 2S.007 is an individual competition based class with a focus autonomous robotics. I ended up getting 2nd place in the entire competition, which was double elimination. I also scored the highest amount of points throughout the competition during one of my matches.

I designed and built two robots, as the rules allowed for it. My game plan was to have one robot act autonomously throughout the entire competition, while I manually control another robot. Both robots were programmed in Arduino C. There were various challenges that the robots could complete, and there were markings on the game floor to help with robot navigation. My autonomous robot used encoders and the line sensor to be able to navigate around the game field. I also set up a simple encoder based control system for the remote control one, to have it autonomously navigate and complete a task before I even have to pick up the controller.