The IEEE Robotics & Automation Society at UT-Austin participates in many projects throughout the year. This is a listing of some of our current projects, as well as those of previous years. Click an image below to find out more about the individual project, or one of the links above to find out more about a particular competition.

RASmanian Devil
IGVC, 2009
The 3rd IGVC robot from UT-Austin started as our homemade segway, the RASway. Runs an outdoor course avoiding painted lines and obstacles, using a webcam and laser rangefinder.

Affray 2.0
IEEE Region V, 2009 - Lubbock
Sorts colored cubes with a camera (CmuCam2) on a course split into areas marked with flashing LED's. Affray drives with two motors in tank steering configuration with a ball caster.

Firstie
FIRST, 2009
RAS 1st year mentoring FRC#2881. Robot navigates across a slippery surface, collecting balls, shooting into goals towed by opposing robots. Team won Rookie Inspiration Award at Lone Star Regional .

Stannous Cannous II
FIRST, 2009
RAS 3rd year mentoring team 2158. Robot navigates across a slippery surface, collecting orbit balls, and shooting them into goals towed by opposing robots .

Affray
IEEE Region V, 2008 - Kansas City
Sorts weighted casks with a load sensor, while line following. Verdant drives with two motors in tank steering configuration with a caster.

Stannous Cannous
FIRST, 2008
RAS 2nd year mentoring team 2158. Robot goes around a track, picking up 40" balls, throwing them over a 6.5' overpass. Team won Gracious Professionalism award at Lone Star Regional.
Whiny 1.1
IEEE Region V, 2007
Sorts colored cans with a camera (CmuCam2) in a circle pattern using compass encoder navigation. Whiny 1.1 drives with two motors in tank steering configuration with two ball casters
BlastyRAS
 IGVC, DPRG, 2007
The 2nd IGVC robot from UT-Austin includes a custom chassis with redesigned software and sensors. Runs an outdoor course avoiding painted lines and obstacles using a webcam & sonars
Tinman
 FIRST, 2007
RAS 1st year mentoring Anderson High School robotics team (FRC#2158). Robot picks up pool tubes and puts it on a rack. Team won Rookie All-Star award at Lone Star Regional and attended championship.
Whiny
IEEE Region V, 2006 - San Antonio
Sorts colored cans with a camera (CmuCam2) using line sensor navigation. Whiny qualified with the 4th best score and went to finals division.
Raslow
 IGVC, 2006
The 1st IGVC robot from UT-Austin built around a retrofitted RoboMow. Runs an outdoor course avoiding painted lines and obstacles using a webcam and sonars. Highest rookie score.
BeepBeep
 DPRG, Long Haul ,2006
Waypoint navigation with obstacle avoidance. Competed with Raslow to win 2nd overall. Beep Beep was the early version of BlastyRAS.
RamRod
 DPRG, RoboRama 2005
One of the first Vex robots to compete. Competed in all tasks of RoboRama including Quick Trip, Line Following, Wall Following, Time run, Can Retrieval. Won 2nd place overall.
Kim Smith
IEEE Region V, 2004 -Oklahoma City
Line following robot processed 2D images to make decisions for turning, stopping and ball launching. Main differential racing motor with third back steering wheel for high speed turning.
RasTank
 Outreach
A toy tank converted into a outdoor robotics platform. Initially a test platform for IGVC but later converted into an outreach demonstration robot.