CEEN 0601 - Designing Mobile Machines: Robot Rover Derby Jr.

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

You and 2 teammates will build and program a stepping motor-driven, tank-steered rover. Each teammate will specialize in a certain skill necessary for the success of the team’s design. To begin with, the programmer on your team will have available a generic rover that can be programmed to navigate around obstacles and knock over a goal. Programming will be in embedded C. The mechanical specialist will assemble with Allen wrenches a chassis and drive train, using extruded aluminum rail. The electrical specialist will build a power unit and hook up stepping motor drivers to an on-board computer. The rovers will have lever switches to detect the walls of the track and phototransistors to sense bright lights over the goal blocks. Your programmer will debug code on the team's custom-made machine, to implement sensory feedback. By the end of the week your team's rover will compete with other rovers in short contests to see who knocks over their goal first. On the Saturday morning after the last day of class each team will demonstrate their rover and talk about its design to an assembled audience of parents.

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0.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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