INTERNATIONAL TEAM WINS EE3 PRIZE

STUDENT IN DE KIJKER

The Engineering Experiences (EE) at Group T Leuven Campus are cross-disciplinary projects allowing the students to take on challenging assignments as a team and become familiar with the reality of engineering practice, not only technical knowledge, but also project management, leadership, communication and social skills.

Building a robot that works with sensors and is controlled by a PC. That, in a nutshell, is the assignment given to students in their third semester of the bachelor’s programme. On the final day of the project, the best teams present their results to a jury and the public.

The international team of Harshita and her friends designed and built a robot that is able to convert an existing picture into codes and to transfer this codes into a new image created by a plotter. The robot makes use of a two-dimensional polar system in which each point on the picture is determinated by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction.

The reference point is called the pole, and the ray from the pole to in the reference direction is the polar axis. The distance from the pole is called the radial coordinate or radius, and the angle is called the angualar coordinate. The application the winning team has created can be used for artistic or educational purposes.

Yves Persoons