You are invited to spend the last Workshop sessions and additional Individual Study time to complete a Project in Modelling and Simulation. This work is worth 75% of the module grade. You can choose a project based on either UDK or Webots. You may use Octave to support your work.

You are encouraged to work in informal groups, having conversations and helping out other folk working on the same project. Here is a list of who is available to collaborate. Individual project chat rooms are available on Blackbeard.

If you feel you are struggling (perhaps with coding) then I suggest you attack either the Skymaster UDK project or the Braitenberg Webot project or the Truss Bridge project (labelled green). More challenging (and perhaps rewarding) projects are labelled blue.

Here you will code a CPG to produce various quadruped gaits. Perfect for animal lovers. This is based on Workshop 5.

Here you will code a CPG to produce various hexapod gaits. Perfect if you do not suffer from arachnophobia This is based on Workshop 5.

This follows on from the Salamander workshop (5). You will develop the salamander controller to make it adapt to moving on land or water; this includes sorting out the leg motion.

This is an 'open' project involving one of the earliest Martian rovers. It could be quite exciting; you could follow the Perseverance media reports and try to reproduce some of the technical information. The controller provided is the built-in Webots controller which you should enhance. As of 19-03-21 this is no longer available.

This is a line-following robot which you may have coded in Workshop 4 or on the Nature of Computing. You will build a controller which will navigate the robot through a warehouse to simulate the retrieval of items from several racks, according to a 'shopping list'. Think Amazon.

In this project you will write straightforward code to model and simulate this favourite fairground ride (check out Butlins - Minehead). While the code is straightforward, the behaviour of the Skymaster is very rich, and could yield a substantial investigation.

Under appropriate conditions, the Skymaster can exhibit period-doubling bifurcations and chaos. You will code a realistic model and investigate this non-linear behaviour. This extends the work of Workshop 3.

Here you will code a simulation of the most important source of renewable energy in the UK - wind power. The model will adjust the turbine behaviour to extract the maximum amount of energy as the wind speed changes. If there is time, you will be able to construct a wind farm.

Here you will code and investigate a maglev energy harvester following recent research, and investigate how the non-linearity in the system can potentially enhance its performance in extracting energy from vibrating systems. This will draw on the work from Workshop 3.