Development of an Undergraduate Laboratory Curriculum in Robotics

这个项目的目标是开发一系列展示机器人和视觉的本科课程，这些课程将允许本科生与本科生分享这一重要且正在发展的领域的兴奋和可能性。希望这可以作为全国其他高校的示范课程。这些课程将同时强调理论和实践；学生将被要求设计、实施和调试体现本课程所涵盖的理论机器人科学的系统。有效教授这些课程的一个关键要求是拥有最先进的机器人和机器视觉实验室。由于为每个学生提供最先进的机器人在经济上是不可行的，他们将建立一个分布式教育计算环境，在这个环境中，昂贵的传感器和控制系统可以从共享的局域网上的多个学生工作站访问。除了工作站，用于实验的主要设备子系统包括带有抓手的机械手控制臂，带有驱动系统、视觉和超声波传感器的移动机器人平台，以及实时控制器。他们将使用这些设备进行部件识别和操作、机器人装配和任务级手眼机器人系统的实验

The goal of this project is to develop a series of undergraduate courses that showcase robotics and vision, a series that will allow the sharing with undergraduate students the excitement and possibilities of this important and developing area. It is hoped that this can serve as a model curriculum for other universities across the country. The courses will emphasize both theory and practice; students will be required to design, implement, and debug systems that embody the theoretical robotics science covered in the course. A key requirement for effectively teaching the courses is a state-of-the-art robotics and machine vision laboratory. Since it is financially infeasible to supply each student with a state-of-the-art robot, they will build a distributed educational computing environment, where costly sensor and control systems are accessible from a number of student workstations on a shared local are network. In addition to work-stations, major equipment subsystems for experimentation include a robotic force- control arm with gripper, a mobile robotic platform with drive system, vision, and ultrasonic sensors, and a real-time controller. They will use the equipment to perform experiments in part-recognition and manipulation, robotic assembly, and task-level hand-eye robot systems