The 2009 Marsh Award for the Best Capstone Design Project went to Mids Argonne, Sipel, Combs and McAdams and for the T-Shirt Cannon (advised by Prof. Bishop). It is a heavy duty remotely operated vehicle which uses compressed air to launch T-Shirts hundreds of feet. The idea was to make something that could be used at football games to get the crowd excited about football and engineering. The construction on this one is top notch.
Tuesday, January 26
Tuesday, January 19
The World's Smallest Soccer Match
For the second year in a row, USNA participated in the Robot Cup Nanogram Soccer competition. A soccer match in which the robotic players are so small the entire match has to be see througha microscope. USNA Placed Second and was featured in Popular Science online.
Mids from Electrical Engineering (advised by Prof. Firebaugh) and Systems Engineering (advised by Prof. Peipmeier) collaborated on the design and control of these scrtach-drive style robots.
Wednesday, January 13
"That there is one souped-up John Boat!"
As part of their Swarm Manipulation Project, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, Prof. Feemster and Esposito are exploring technologies that could lead to the development of teams of autonomous tuboats. Mids Eric Regneier (USNA 2008), and Erik Smith (USNA 2007) helped outfit this standard 10 ft JohnBoat with a suite of navigation equipment. Here we are testing on College Creek.
Friday, January 8
ES451 Midterm Projects
For the Mobile Robot Design course, midshipman are allowed to define their own challenge and invent a project description. Here is a funny one from the archives... (Thanks Midn Dobichesky, USNA 2008)
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