Our project requires us to create an application that tracks the movement of the user's head in order to render the application in 3D. This will be accomplished using Nintendo's Wiimote and infrared LED lights.

Recent updates in the hospitals and medical centers in the world have left the paper charting methods that are currently being taught at SIUE behind the curve. We are designing a computer based medical charting system that will introduce SIUE nursing students to these computer aided systems in an effort to familiarize them with the capabilities of and procedures involved within them.

Our project will be used to manage lab equipment across campus. It will keep schedules and provide alerts based on inspection periods. The system will keep a history for each item's previous inspections, as well as the responsible parties for that item. It will output reports based on the history and generate forms necessary for preliminary quotes and purchase orders. Our software will eliminate the need to perform these tedious and time-consuming tasks by hand

The overall goal for our project is to develop an autonomous golf cart to compete in the 2009 DARPA Mini Grand Challenge. Every year DARPA holds a contest that challenges teams to develop an autonomous automobile to navigate an urban or rural path. The mini grand challenge is similar to this with the exception that instead of developing an automobile, teams are asked to create a robot that is much smaller and inexpensive to navigate a path on a college campus. This year, the competition will be held at Penn State Abington in Abington, Pennsylvania.

Our team, coached by Dr. Weinberg and Dr. Engel, will be competing in the annual student robotics competition at the IEEE Region 5 conference hosted in Lubbock Texas. This years task involves autonomous detection and delivery of "toxic waste containers" to a "remote processing facility."