EMEnents 2013 Team Description
Arsalan Akhter
1,3
, Usama Tariq Butt
1
, Mahmood Azhar
2
, Syed Mohsin Raza
3
, Taimur
Ahmad
3
, Ghina Zia
2
, M. Shahzad Bhatti
1
, Jahanzaib Sohail
2
, Muneeb Arshad
3
, Zain
Imran
2
, Asif Mehmood
1
, Mesum Tamaar Malik
2
, Taousif Iqbal
2
, Abbas Amir
1
,
Muhamamad Salman
2
, Kunwar Faraz
3
, Shoab Khan
1
.
1
Department of Computer Engineering,
2
Department of Electrical Engineering,
3
Department of Mechatronics Engineering
NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
National University of Sciences and Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Abstract.
This paper presents an overview of the technical details of team
EMEnents, the Robocup Small Size League Team from NUST College of
EME, Pakistan, for the year 2013. The paper discusses the current status of the
team and the progress of the system developed so far.
1 Introduction
Team EMEnents is an interdisciplinary team in its inception phase at NUST College
of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, a constituent college of National University
of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. The vision for participation in Robocup Small
Size League was manifested in 2009, and over the following years, the team has
matured itself to its current state, where it now intends to participate in Robocup
2013.
In order to fulfill the requirements of the project, three teams, each from a different
department, came together to form team EMEnents. Software implementation of the
game play and planning modules of the project were implemented by the team
members from Computer Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering, whereas the
Computer Engineering Team also implemented the software side of wireless
communication. The team from Electrical Engineering worked on boost circuit
implementation, kicker and dribbler circuitry. The team from Mechatronics
Engineering took up the task of design & fabrication of the mechanical structure and
relevant electronic circuitry of the robot. The teams from Mechatronics Engineering
and Electrical Engineering worked together on electromechanical actuation of motors,
wireless communication and feedback control.
We have been working with a three pronged strategy, namely, development of robots
and hardware, development of software, integration & testing of individual modules,
all going in a parallel fashion. The paper discusses the current system in detail and
casts some light on the future directions in which the system is intended to be
developed.