Remote Controlled Claw Bot

About

This project came about because I took a robotics design course (MREN 303) out of personal interest last year. The objective was to compete in a head-to-head game against other students to score the most points. The first section involved navigating autonomously through a gate, followed by a human operated section to pick up and dispose of as many objects as possible. Despite having almost no experience with robotics before this competition, my teammate and I came in 4th place out of about 25 teams.

Takeaways

This project taught me a lot about design, programming, and implementation. I learned how to write progrmas in arduino with C++, and how to communicate with an external controller over wifi. In addition to this, I got to use concepts from math courses by implementing a PID controller to ensure accurate positioning.