A few weeks ago at EOH, IEEE competed in the AMD Jerry Sanders Design Competition (JSDC). JSDC is a robotics competition where teams design robots to complete specific tasks. This years competition was a large scale game of tic-tac-toe. Basically, each team had to create a robot that could pick up an air-filled balloon and place it in boxes which represented tie-tac-toe squares. The robots have to complete various objectives to obtain their teams balloons. The tasks included pushing a button, hitting a switch, opening a door, and pushing down a balanced titer-toter. Once a team places their balloon into a box, it would remain under the team’s control until another team takes control by placing their balloon into it. At the end of an eight or ten minute round points would be given to teams which controlled three boxes in a round. Furthermore, teams would be awarded points for unlocking their balloons and placing them into a box. The strategy used by the majority of teams was to place as many balloons into a single box instead of trying to obtain a tic-tac-toe. The competition was a single elimination tournament where four robots competed at a time. Your place in the bracket was decided by your standings after seven round robin matches. A total of sixteen different teams from a vary of different colleges competed in the JSDC, and the IEEE placed third in the tournament!

Don and I videotaped all of the rounds that IEEE completed in. Check them out!

Tournament

Demolition Round!! IEEE took 2nd!

Downloads:
Tournament
Demolition Round
Round Robin – 1st Match
Round Robin – 2nd Match
Round Robin – 3rd Match
Round Robin – 4th Match
Round Robin – 5th Match
Round Robin – 6th Match
Round Robin – 7th Match

Photos

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Over the weekend of EOH, IEEE and its members earned a number of awards.

Erik Johnson and his team received First Prize for the Technical Encore Exhibit category of Engineering Open House awards! Their project was the Multitouch Display, which is one of IEEE’s current SEED Projects.

Our Jerry Sanders Design Competition team placed 3rd out of 16 teams attending on Saturday in normal competition, and 2nd place in the demolition round.  Videos of the rounds IEEE participated in can be found in a convenient YouTube playlist, located here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6FDC6BC6AC731AFE (yes, that is Engineering Freshman Committee’s robot that is being launched off of our robot at the start of the demolition round).

written by Donald