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Background

The objective of the competition was to have your robot land more foam balls than the opponent's into target towers mounted around a game board. Reloading balls into the robot was only permitted when it entered a marked off space at the edge of the board.

Our Arduino-powered robot used two pairs of ultrasonic sensors to orient itself with the walls of the playing field, rotating itself using a pair of stepper motors in "tank steering" configuration. Once lined up with each tower, a DC motor driven flywheel shot foam balls fed from a rotating hopper.

Autonomous Robot