| Mech | Elec | Soft |
Subm'd | Proc'd | Cut |
Subm'd | Proc'd | Cut |
Live (or last) competition Results
Integrated Design Project (IDP)
The IDP is a team based project, undertaken by all second year
students, which is run 4 times a year (twice
during Michaelmas and Lent terms).
The course aims to give participants experience of the type of
multi-disciplinary projects that are now common in industry. Each team
is required to design, build, test and demonstrate an autonomous guided
vehicle which has to perform a number of operations similar to those
found in an automated factory.
The work is assessed by way of a number of individual and team reports
and presentations together with the build quality and success of the
robot.
Students are normally in teams of 6, selected at random from
the lab groups participating in the project. The main sessions are Mon
11-1, Wed 9-11 and Thursdays 9-11 with most of the work centered
around the EIET Laboratory, DPO and Dyson Center. Details of the
course and the specific work schedule etc can be found in the current
IDP Handbook below, together with the latest briefing sheet/problem
statement. N.B. The project task changes for each project.
| Intro Lecture | 09:00 | 5 | 04/10/18 | 01/11/18 | 17/01/19 | 14/02/19 |
| Management Lecture | 14:00 | 5 | 04/10/18 | 01/11/18 | 17/01/19 | 14/02/19 |
| Creo Lecture | 14:15 | 2 | 08/10/18 | 05/11/18 | 21/01/19 | 18/02/19 |
| 1st Presentation | See Notice | 3 | 09/10/18 | 06/11/18 | 22/01/19 | 19/02/19 |
| 1st Report | 13:00 | 6 | 12/10/18 | 09/11/18 | 25/01/19 | 22/02/19 |
| Design Acceptance (100%) | 11:00 | 4 | 17/10/18 | 14/11/18 | 30/01/19 | 27/02/19 |
| Design Acceptance (85%) | 13:00 | 5 | 18/10/18 | 15/11/18 | 31/01/19 | 28/02/19 |
| Design Acceptance (70%) | 11:00 | 2 | 22/10/18 | 19/11/18 | 04/02/19 | 04/03/19 |
| Design Acceptance (55%) | 11:00 | 4 | 24/10/18 | 21/11/18 | 06/02/19 | 06/03/19 |
| Functionality Demo (100%) | 11:00 | 3 | 23/10/18 | 20/11/18 | 05/02/19 | 05/03/19 |
| Functionality Demo (75%) | 11:00 | 5 | 25/10/18 | 22/11/18 | 07/02/19 | 07/03/19 |
| Final Presentation | See Notice | 2 | 29/10/18 | 26/11/18 | 11/02/19 | 11/03/19 |
| Competition | See Notice | (1) | 03/11/18 | 01/12/18 | 16/02/19 | 16/03/19 |
| Final report | 17:00 | (2) | 07/11/18 | 05/12/18 | 20/02/19 | 20/03/19 |
| Feedback Session | 13:00 | | 26/11/18 | 22/01/19 | 11/03/19 | (tbc) |
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N.B. The competitions for the M1/L1 courses are held on Saturday
mornings and M2/L2 on Fridays.
The final report hand-in deadlines are
the following Wednesday/Monday respectively.
Including copies of the current course documents (inc. current
problem statement and
handbook ), kit list (inc datasheets), design documentation and
tutorials.
Access to a series of on-line forums for
- Team discussions and transfer of documents, datafiles
- Notices from staff
- Access to 'Ask The Expert' resource out of timetabled sessions
- Electronic submission of CAD files
Live feed from the EIETL laboratory
The MDP is a joint project between CUED and MIT
to generate support material of multidisciplinary design
projects. The website contains a large number of resources useful
to students taking the IDP. In addition there is information
relating to to the MDP reource disk that is available to all
students involved with the IDP.
A printable Manual is available.
Photographs of robots and teams from previous
courses together with some videos of competition runs and student
introductions. N.B. Photographs of robots are normally posted here on
the day of the competition.
Contact details of the staff and TA's involved with
the IDP.
The IDP project has been supported, directly or in
kind, by a number of organisations since its inception in 1996, in
particular:
If you are interested in supporting the project please contact
Dr. Peter Long (pjgl2 at eng.cam.ac.uk).
