Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Robotics

Today & Friday, I want you guys to create some plans. What are you planning?

Show me on your blog what your able to get completed:

Couple things:
Sensors
Plan how you'll show me that you can get all four sensors to work (independently or multiple at a time is up to you).

The Course
I want you guys to design the course. We're going to start talking about robots in space, and so the theme for the course is a robotic rover on Mars. So, plan what would your robot would do on Mars (collecting data and samples). Also, start planning and designing the course and obstacles. Your welcome to do some research regarding robots in space and Mars to aid you. I'd like to see some sketches of the different planned obstacles and course layouts.

Their is one sort of twist to this challenge. When you guys are programming, you'll need to use the sensors in the programming. While there are a lot of things we can do in space with robots, and we can steer them to some degree, we certainly can't accurately land a craft or robot in an exact location, only in a general area. As such, when your robot is to complete the challenge, it will be placed in a general location but not always in the exact same spot. By using your different sensors, you should be able to get your robot to do what it needs to.

Final Robot
Start planning the design for your robot to effectively complete objectives related to to data collection for this task. I'd like to see some sketches of what your robot might look like. Remember, the course is being designed by multiple groups, so the final course will likely be a blending of them. A couple different designs would be useful.

Next Presentation
If your stuck on the previous things, you can also start looking into what you want to present on next.

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