Projects:2014S1-06 Bell Ringing Robot: Hawkear

Project information

Motivation and Background

Change-Ringing has a history of nearly 700 years. It is a highly mathematical collaborative team sport and musical performance. The objective of this project is to work towards a fully autonomous robot which can ring with a team made up of robots and humans to achieve high quality ringing, using audible clues to maintain control of the bells. Hawkear is a new computer system designed to help the judges in bell ringing contests in the same way "Hawkeye" helps as referees. As the first year of this long term project, the main goal is to use Hall effect sensors build a bell striking analysis system which is comparable to David Bagley’s system, should be able to connect with PC interface, the Odd Struckness Meter and detect the strike motion.

Project Aims

The project aims to develop a bell striking analysis system, which is capable of sensor induction, data acquisition and data analysis for bell ringing contest and training.

System Component

• Sensor Box

• Junction Box

• Analysis Box

Team

Group members

• Mr Yapeng Xie
• Mr Zhenhao Zhang

Supervisors

• Dr Mathew Sorell
• Dr Branden Philips

Resources

• The Odd Struckness Meter (OSM)
• Standard PC

References

• [1] David Bagley system introduction,[Online],Available: http://www.ringing.demon.co.uk/able/ableface.htm
• [2] The Hall Effect Sensor, Electromagnetism,[Online],Available: http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/electromagnetism/hall-effect.html