As stated, our team settled on creating a search and rescue bot. Not only were we required to think within the scope of the course, but we had to apply our design to real-world applications. For us, we wanted to create a device that could navigate through dangerous environments and locate signals of distress. An example of this could be a fire hazard victim. The idea here was knowing the location of a person in a danger zone could save time in the search progress by letting rescuers know the whereabouts of incapacitated individuals. We tried to accomplish this by using heat detectors and filters to find human body heat signatures, then a pinging system.

Inside the course scope, we simply needed to navigate an obstacle course using an infrared radar system. For our final test, we dodged large and small obstacles as well as holes in the environment.

After countless hours in lab learning and computing in C, we learned about teamwork and design by finding what each team member could do best, and assigning them that role in the project. This ability is an asset in the professional design process. The accountability throughout the course was also a huge gain for my professional knowledge. My team became experts at properly managing team assignments and goals. This led to us acing the project.

• Intense teamwork in a design setting
• C programming
• Register mapping to a microprocessor
• ADC from real-world signals for computer processing