DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF WIRELESS OPERATED PAINTBALL ROBOT FOR MIROC 2014 COMPETITION

The purpose of this project is to design and fabricate a wireless operated paintball robot for MIRoC 2014 competition. The previous paintball robot built has some technical issues, in which the driving mechanism applied are less maneuverable and it has bulky chassis design which increases the chance of being hit by another robot in the competition. In this project, the focus is to perform improvements on the paintball robot in terms of its driving mechanism and the chassis based on previous paintball robot. For the driving mechanism, Mecanum driving mechanism has been applied to the robot. The Mecanum driving mechanism mixer circuit is designed and simulated using Multisim and fabricated for application in the field. For the chassis improvement, the new designed chassis has lower height which reduces the chance of being hit. The design was made using SketchUp Pro. The performance of the robot is determined by its maneuverability and simplicity of the control in reference to its predecessors. The results show that the fabricated robot has achieved higher maneuverability rate and have smaller chassis size, which is advantageous in the competition later. In conclusion, the project is successful as it has achieved its main objectives stated earlier. In the future, the result of this project can be replicated to be used for other purpose in other fields.