Development of an Undergraduate Laboratory Curriculum in Robotics

该项目的目标是开发一系列的本科 展示机器人技术和视觉的课程，这一系列课程将使 与本科生分享的兴奋和可能性， 这是一个重要的和正在发展的领域。 希望这可以作为 全国其他大学的示范课程。 课程将强调理论和实践;学生将 设计、实现和调试体现 理论机器人科学涵盖在课程中。 一个关键要求 为了有效地教授这些课程， 机器视觉实验室 由于在财政上不可行， 为每个学生提供一个最先进的机器人，他们将建立一个 分布式教育计算环境，其中昂贵的传感器和 控制系统可以从多个学生工作站访问， 共享局域网。 除了工作站，主要 用于实验的设备子系统包括机器人力， 具有夹持器的控制臂，具有驱动系统的移动的机器人平台， 视觉、超声波传感器和实时控制器。 他们将 使用该设备进行零件识别实验， 操作、机器人装配和任务级手眼机器人系统

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