Team Members:_______________________________________________________________

 

Robot Name___________________________

 

Robot Gender (Male/Female, or Undecided) __________

 

Instructor Initials

 Robot Project

 

Task 1  - Build a robot.  Use fehmbot as your model.  Remember the body of the robot has to be strong enough and big enough to hold the handy board. Demonstrate that you have a working robot.  (5 points)

 

Read pages 773 - 785 in your text Answer the following questions.   (Only hand in one set of answers per robot team)

  1. Describe your robot's environment.
  2. What type of "real world" tasks might a robot like the one you've built be good for?
  3. What types of effectors does your robot have and what are they used for? 
  4. How many actuators does your robot have?  Describe your robot's actuators.
  5. What is a nonholonomic robot?  What is a holonomic robot?  Which one of these describes your robot?
  6. Is your robot statically stable or dynamically stable?  Why?
  7. Our robots have very simplistic sensors.  Choose one sensor type, as described in your text, and describe how it could be used to help solve the your robot 's problem task.

 

(1 point)

Task 2 – Build a simple reflex soccer playing robot.  Test it on the soccer field.  Hand in the robot code.  Record your results.

 

5 points

 Task 3 – Build a model based soccer playing robot.  Test it on the soccer field.  Hand in the robot code.  Record your results.

 

3 points

 

Task 2 - Have the robot use its photo sensors to follow a path.  The path is defined by white line on a black background.  Use the neural network software you modified to teach your robot how to follow a path.   (5 points)

 

 

Task 3 - After all tasks and extra credit is completed, dismantle your robot! (Unless your robot makes it into the "Robot Hall of Fame"!)

  (1 point)