Maslab 2006

Congratulations!

We held our final contest on February 3. Congratulations to these award recipients:

First Place

Team Three (McJeevis), 8 points

Engineering Award

Team Eight (The DLB)

Best Dressed

Team Six (All Circuits Groovy)

Best BotClient Eye-Candy

Team Thirteen (Moo13)

Also, congratulations to all the teams for their creativity and hard work, which made Maslab 2006 a success.

General Information

• Course policies
• Course calendar
• Lab staffing schedule
• Lab cleanup
• Mentors and check-offs
• Sensor points
• Contest rules
• Playing field
• Kit contents
• Workshop
• Quadphase encoders
• Gyroscope
• FAQ forum
• Old announcements

Documentation

Software

API documentation

• Java 1.5.0 API
• Maslab Java API
• OrcBoard Java API
• Jama numerics library API

OrcBoard

• OrcManual

Tutorials

• Java image processing tutorial
• Odometry tutorial
• Soldering tutorial

Lectures

• Overview
• Vision
• Software
• Sensors
• Mechanical
• Controls (Matlab PID Scripts)
• Mapping (PPT and movies)

Activities and Assignments

• Day One: OrcPad hello world
• Day Two: sensors
• Checkpoint One
• Day Four: feature detection
• Checkpoint Two
• Checkpoint Three
• Design review
• Mock contests
• Team journal
• Final paper

Staff

Staff

Tim Abbott, Margaret Avener, Ken Barr, Chris Batten, Ryan Carlon, Finale Doshi, Jason Furtado, David Glasser, Roger Hanna, Matthew Humbert, Anders Kaseorg, Yuran Lu, Valerie Morash, Ed Olson, Heidi Pan, Dany Qumsiyeh, Andrew Spann, Dheera Venkatraman, Chris Wilkens, Yoyo Zhou

Teams

1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 15

Team One (Internet Atom Balm)

Benjamin Charrow, Leon Fay, Marti Bolivar, Matthew Steele

Journal, Final paper

Team Two (Team Racing)

Benjamin Bloom, Iris Cheung, Michael Anderson, Dennis Miaw

Journal, Final paper

Team Three (McJeevis)

Doris Lin, Hao (Steven) Zhou, Jeffrey Moore

Journal, Final paper

Team Four (Team Zissou: The Life Robotic)

Bryan Newbold, Francis Shuman, Christine Moran

Journal, Final paper

Team Five (I See Dead Robots)

Surasak Chunsrivirot, Lohith Kini, Shreyes Seshasai, Vinith Misra

Journal, Final paper

Team Six (All Circuits Groovy)

Brian Pepper, Ilan Moyer, Jessica Lowell, Matthew Faulkner

Journal, Final paper

Team Seven (Make 7UP Yours)

Julian Caballero, Jason Steininger-Holmes, Marcos Berrios-Roldan, Miguel Saez

Journal, Final paper

Team Eight (The DLB)

Jayant Krishnamurthy, Jonathan Grimm, Sean Torrez

Journal, Final paper

Team Nine (Irascible Posterior Matriarch 4000)

Gautham Arumilli, Justin Rigling, Matthew Spencer, Andrew Muth

Journal, Final paper

Team Ten (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance)

Will Bosworth, Collin Johnson, Tyler Williams

Journal, Final paper

Team Eleven (Robotron)

Andrea Hawksley, Kaia Dekker, Nelson Elhage, Christina Hawkes

Journal, Final paper

Team Twelve (PSK)

Alexander Cutting, Jonathan Salinas, Louis Basel, Robert Toscano

Journal, Final paper

Team Thirteen (Moo13)

Alex Schwendner, Michael Axiak, Eric Price, Jason Gonsalves

Journal, Final paper

Team Fifteen (Have Our Cake and Eat it Too)

Conor Lenahan, Robert Gens, Russell Ryan, Zackary Anderson

Journal, Final paper