As a junior at Brigham Young University I competed in a mechatronic design competition on a team with 3 other engineering students. My team competed along with 12 other teams to design, build, and test an autonomous robot and were required to complete the competition objectives.

The project was coded in C language and integrated custom PCB's, sensors, and other electronics to achieve the competition objectives. The competition objectives included line following, autonomous task completion, corrective action, and state programming.

The project was completed in stages so that each objective could have hardware and software created, tested, and integrated with the rest of the rest of the robot. This iterative process enabled troubleshooting and debugging of the robot hardware and software.

We adopted an iterative approach when designing the ball containment device. Protypes were built, tested, and modified to achieve the ideal design that met all performance requirements. The use of 3D printing enabled rapid iterations and minimal lead time between each iteration.