Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Full report and details on how we designed and built Ohmboy:
drive.google.com/file/d/0B6gPyiqCjhmsNWItWHFSX211dkU/view?usp=sharing
In my final year earning my electrical engineering degree at the University of Maryland, I had the privilege of working with Ben Palfi and Ben Snellings in a course titled, "Autonomous control of interacting robots". We designed and built an autonomous robot named Ohmboy who was able to locate and drive toward a source of infrared light while avoiding obstacles. Here is a video of Ohmboy in action. You can see the red clay pot in the lower left hand corner of the screen. That clay pot has several infrared LEDs shining in all directions. Ohmboy has 4 infrared detectors on the front and with a clever algorithm it can determine where the strongest IR source is and drive toward it. The obstacle avoidance is accomplished with a camera that rotates on a 2 axis gimble. The camera has computer vision software running on it which detects objects in front of it. You can see Ohmboy avoiding the orange cones and driving right to the IR beacon. This was a fun course and I learned a ton of cool things. If you want to read more details on Ohmboy's design, I've included a link to our full design report. I hope this video will inspire young minds to pursue degrees in the STEM field. Thanks for watching.
Full report and details on how we designed and built Ohmboy:
drive.google.com/file/d/0B6gPyiqCjhmsNWItWHFSX211dkU/view?usp=sharing
In my final year earning my electrical engineering degree at the University of Maryland, I had the privilege of working with Ben Palfi and Ben Snellings in a course titled, "Autonomous control of interacting robots". We designed and built an autonomous robot named Ohmboy who was able to locate and drive toward a source of infrared light while avoiding obstacles. Here is a video of Ohmboy in action. You can see the red clay pot in the lower left hand corner of the screen. That clay pot has several infrared LEDs shining in all directions. Ohmboy has 4 infrared detectors on the front and with a clever algorithm it can determine where the strongest IR source is and drive toward it. The obstacle avoidance is accomplished with a camera that rotates on a 2 axis gimble. The camera has computer vision software running on it which detects objects in front of it. You can see Ohmboy avoiding the orange cones and driving right to the IR beacon. This was a fun course and I learned a ton of cool things. If you want to read more details on Ohmboy's design, I've included a link to our full design report. I hope this video will inspire young minds to pursue degrees in the STEM field. Thanks for watching.
