VEXU 2015-2016

I competed on the WPI VEXU team for the 2015-2016 game "Nothing But Net". Nothing but Net allowed college teams to build both a 15" cubed robot and a 24" cubed robot. I worked to implement and algorithm that would find balls on the floor using a LiDAR sensor. This ended up working well enough to be implemented as an autonomous routine. The robot went to the VEXU World Championship and won the World Champion Think Award that is given out to teams with the best autonomous and innovative programming. The 24" robot ended up 5th and 8th in the 2016 World Robot and Programming Skills Challenges respectively.

Below is a video of the algorithm running and scoring balls full autonomously without prior knowledge of the balls locations on the field.