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Integrated Design Project (IDP)

The IDP 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 a autonomous guided vehicle which has to perform a number of operations similar to those found in an automated factory. The work is assessed by a way of a number of individual and team reports, presentations together with the build quality and success xo 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 upper workshop. 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.

Course dates 2012-13

Intro Lecture 09:00 Thu 04/10/12 01/11/12 17/01/13 14/02/13 Management Lecture 14:00 Thu 04/10/12 01/11/12 17/01/13 14/02/13 ProE Lecture 14:15 Mon 08/10/12 05/11/12 21/01/13 18/02/13 1st Presentation See Notice Wed 10/10/12 07/11/12 23/01/13 20/02/13 1st Report 13:00 Mon 15/10/12 12/11/12 28/01/13 25/02/13 Design Acceptance (100%) 11:00 Thu 18/10/12 15/11/12 31/01/13 28/02/13 Design Acceptance (85%) 13:00 Mon 22/10/12 19/11/12 04/02/13 04/03/13 Design Acceptance (70%) 11:00 Wed 24/10/12 21/11/12 06/02/13 06/03/13 Design Acceptance (55%) 11:00 Thu 25/10/12 22/11/12 07/02/13 07/03/13 Functional Demo (100%) 11:00 Thu 25/10/12 22/11/12 07/02/13 07/03/13 Functional Demo (Reduced %) 11:00 Thu 29/10/12 26/11/12 11/02/13 11/03/13 Final Presentation See Notice Mon 29/10/12 26/11/12 11/02/13 11/03/13 Competition See Notice (1) 03/11/12 30/11/12 16/02/13 15/03/13 Final report 17:00 (2) 07/11/12 03/12/12 20/02/13 18/03/13

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.

Resources:

Including copies of the current course documents (inc. current problem statement and handbook ), kit list (inc datasheets), design documentation and tutorials.

Forums:

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

Web Cams:

Live feed from the EIETL laboratory

MDP Web Site:

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.

Photographic and Video Archive .:

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:

Contact details of the staff and TA's involved with the IDP.

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Sponsors and Collaborators

The IDP project has been supported, directly or in kind, by a number of organisations since its inception in 1996, in particular:

Boeing Corporation	Cambridge-MIT Institute	iEndian	NHK	Onecall / Farnell Premier Group
Omax Inc	Parametric Technology Corporation	Toby Churchill Ltd	TTP

If you are interested in supporting the project please contact Dr. Peter Long (pjgl2 at eng.cam.ac.uk).

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