¿Robotics?

And an INVITATION for you to join us at

Three Critical Parts of a Robot: Input, Process, Output

Sensor, Microcontroller, Motors

Homemade

Commercial

Hybrids

Microcontroller Based Capacitive Mass Measuring System

A. Abu_Al_Aish, M. Rehman, B. M. Z. Abdullah and A. H. Abu Hassan

School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Engineering Campus University Sains Malaysia,

http://www.measurement.sk/2010/S1/Aish.pdf

Cellphone based Portable Bacteria Pre-Concentrating microfluidic Sensor and

Impedance Sensing System

Jing Jiang , Xinhao Wang, Ran Chao , Yukun Ren , Chengpeng Hu , Zhida Xu and Gang Logan Liu

Departments of: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemistry, Center for Biophysics, Computational Biology and

Institute for Genomic Biology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

E-mail: loganliu@illinois.edu

RESEARCH IDEAS

Getting StartedFocus at FIRST: Low cost designs; Easy tasks

What robots to start with?

What do I want the robots to do?

What do I need to know?

Which classes should be first?

Skills they need?

Math to Robotics Connections

Math Functions Input (independent)

Rule (equation) Output (dependent)

(2D experience)

Robotics FunctionsInput (sensor)Rule (program)

Output (action performed) (3D experience)

Discovery Lesson

Distance Traveled (2 meters) Iteration Time (s)

Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3

Average Time (s)

Average Speed (m/s)

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RoboRAVE International 201510 Countries 1700 Students

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