Autonomous Robot Line Painter

The following pages summarize the Fall 2012 EECS 498 - Advanced Embedded Systems Senior Design Group: Autonomous Robot Line Painter which consisted of:
James Carl, Andrew Curtin, John Marcoux, Josh Rickmar, and Dru Steeby

Introduction and Motivation

Today's football fields are painted manually, taking large amounts of time and allowing for human error with every line. Our design would be an autonomous solution to this problem: a robot which could be uploaded with a vectorized list of coordinates and could then create the design with the touch of a button. Since it is autonomous, it would need a scheme to implement localization. Localization, in this case, is the robot's ability to determine its position accurately. For this, it could use a closed loop feedback system which takes input from encoder counts of the drive motors as well as laser triangulation to pinpoint its exact location at anytime. This robot could also be used to paint any kind of sports field, as well as large parking lots or road lines.

Below is a break-down of our budget, which was generously provided by Intel and Lockheed Martin.

Budget