User:Vtaylor/Robotics
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Outline for a new course for 2017-2018. Ideas and information for planning robotics course for next school year. Good introduction and overview of everything robotics – history, components, examples, careers, as well as hands-on opportunities to build and test robots using LEGO NXT and Robot C.
- video, simulations, course, activities
Overview
- Introduction - definition, use, application, advantages, disadvantages * History, Science Fiction, Research and Development - imagination, evolution, refinement, technology * Robot-Human interaction
- Cybernetics / Systems / Mechatronics * Feedback * Theory,
- physical robot * Mechanics * Electronics * sensors * Computer Science * Programming, artificial intelligence
- Exploration * examples, simulations, hands-on build and test * behaviour: how its movement is specified in terms of what it perceives – is this determined by humans – or can the robot learn?
- Careers * Nanotechnology * Biomedical * Manufacturing
- concepts, ideas, vocabulary * http://engineering4kids.wikispaces.com/Robotics+notes
- video
- simulations
Learn more…
- STEMRobotics - This is a beginning course in robotics. We will be utilizing Lego Mindstorm kits, Robolab software and various Lego Robotics materials. The objective of this course is to introduce the student to basic programming as well as problem solving strategies.
text, videos, simulations
diigo > e4k diigo robotics * 2017.1.18
