Team Members:
Pictured from left to right: T.J. Bingham, Andy Giese, Zac Paladino, Josh Galecki, and Andres Calvo
Abstract:
Our robot is officially named the "One Armed Wonder", and was invented by Daniele Benedettelli and described in his book LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Thinking Robots . The architecture consists of an arm that can flip the cube over, or hold it in place while the platform underneath turns the bottom layer of the cube. A webcam is mounted on the unit, and it as well as the lego brick are plugged into a laptop with the cubesolver software installed. We will demo it by first putting the cube on the platform (randomized of course), and starting the cubesolver program which should automatically scan the cube in, generate a solution, then execute the solution. However, the webcam and software sometimes do not cooperate so the program is very likely to read in some colors wrong. If this scenario occurs we will be able to manually make corrections on the spot, and allow the robot to continue. The robot takes about 2 minutes to finish executing the necessary moves to solve the puzzle.
Photos:
