Syllabus
The class will participate in more advanced hands-on, constructivist activities through a variety of robotic engineering activities and challenges. These major activities, after preliminary training, will involve a problem solving design process as well as incorporating many of the Standards for Technological Literacy listed below. Knowledge content areas will include:
• Autonomous Robotics: Designing robotic devices and robotic control programs that allow robots to achieve a given outcome such as navigating in certain directions, following a line on the floor and sensing various environmental objects or conditions.
• Remote Control Robotics: controlling and navigating the robot remotely. This is another important area of robotics and can be used to explore hostile environments, manipulate hazardous materials and so on. Students will design and remotely operate robotic devices using transmitters and receivers and also wireless on-board video.
• Industrial Robotics: you will gain experience working with an industrial type commercial 6-axis robotics arm. You will be working with a Fanuc R-J3 controller found in a multitude of industrial, engineering and scientific areas.
• Machining and Custom Prototype Fabrication: You will be trained in the safe use of various machine tools that will allow you to actually fabricate your own robotic components. This is an important part of robotics engineering.
• Computer Programming: good programming is essential to producing the robotic behaviors necessary to complete a given task. These programming skills will involve more advanced techniques such as subroutines, counters and processing sensor input
• Problem Solving: our robotic challenge activities will involve creative thinking and a good deal of problem solving. The Engineering Design Process which includes identifying a problem, researching it, designing a solution, building a prototype, testing and refining the prototype will be emphasized.
The class will also participate in readings and discussions related to the following areas that follow the Standards for Technological Literacy:
• Nature of Technology
o The Characteristics and Scope of Technology (What is Technology?)
o The Core Concepts of Technology: Systems, Resources, Processes
o Relationships Among Technologies and the Connections Between Technologies and Other Fields
• Technology and Society
o The cultural, social, economic and political effects of technology
o The effects of technology on the environment
o The role of society in the development and use of technology
o The influence of technology on history
• Design
o The attributes of design
o Engineering Design process
o The role of Troubleshooting, Research & Development, Invention, Innovation and Experimentation in Problem Solving
• Abilities for a Technological World
o Apply Design Processes
o Use & Maintain Technological Products & Systems
o Assess the impact of Products & Systems
• The Designed World
Information & Communication Technologies
Manufacturing Technologies
Construction Technologies
Transportation Technologies
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