2009 TE Session Outline

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Events

Sept. 08, 2009 - Teacher Orientation Meeting

  1. FIRST Basics
    1. FIRST Overview - for new teams / teachers
    2. Typical Competition Structure
    3. Teacher expectations
  2. Intro to 2009 TE Sessions
    1. This years objectives - To expose high school students to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts through the FIRST competition. Additionally these sessions will provide the necessary resources to allow high school students to compete successfully in FRC and FTC.
    2. Outline
    3. Schedule
    4. Laptops
      1. Schools will need to provide their own laptops
    5. Parking Status - park for free in W21
    6. Rooms - Klaus 116 E&W, show them where they are
    7. Local Resources - food etc.
    8. Teacher expectations
  3. Q/A
  4. Kit
    1. Workshop Grade FTC Kit
    2. Reasons for selection and plans
    3. What this means
      1. Kits are loaned
      2. Kits are not full FTC Kits
      3. Cannot participate in Final TE Comp with kit
      4. Scholarships available for full FTC kit
  5. Kit distribution
    1. Teachers turn in kit loan agreement
    2. Agreement must be signed by both primary teacher and principal.
  6. LabVIEW

Nov. 14, 2009 - Final Competition

Rules 1. Use only the items in the box. 2. The goal is to hold the specified load at the greatest height possible. 3. Only those teams that actually manage to build a tower that can hold the load long enough for the height to be measured will be eligible for the prize. 4. The height of the load is defined as the distance between the table and the lowest point of the load. 5. The tower that can achieve the greatest load height wins the prize. 6. A heavy spool of red wire may be used as the load.

General Topics

Sept. 15, 2009 - Intro to Robotics and LabVIEW

Lecture: Introduction to Robotics (45 mins)

  1. Short history
  2. What is a Robot?
  3. Why we use robots

Lecture: LabView Introduction (30 mins)

  1. Introduction to LabView

Activity: Install LabVIEW (15 min talk with concurrent activity)

  1. See notes

Competition: Tower Activity (40 min build, 15 min judge)

  • First foot of tower must be made from Tetrix
  • Straw and paper tower above that
  • Must hold small pumpkin

Sept. 22, 2009 - Mechanical Power Transmission

Talk: Power Transmission (30 mins)

  1. Gears
    1. Spur
    2. Helical
    3. Bevel
    4. Internal
    5. Many more - check out the book
  2. Belts
  3. Chains

Demo: Gears (concurrent with the one and two stage demos)

Gears from sterling will be available for the students to examine during the activities (maybe at each table?)

Activity: Gearbox (20 mins)

  • Build one of the following ratios
    • etc
  • If you finish early, try these other ratios
  • etc

Activity: Two Stage Gear Box (25 mins)

  • Build the following ratio
  • Why couldn't you use just two gears?
  • If you finish early try these other ratios

Talk: LabView (30 mins)

  1. Intro to LabView
    1. Brief Syntax
    2. Toolkit
  2. How to drive a motor

Competition: Race (45 mins)

  • Get down the track as quick as possible
    • Bonus points for using LabView to program it
    • Can use built in software to program

Sept. 29, 2009 - Fluid Power and Automation

Lecture: Fluid Power

Activity: Pneumatic Kit

Demo: Rockwell Automation

Oct. 06, 2009 - Manipulation

What about conveyors

Activity

Different Arms (telescopic, jointed)

Oct. 13, 2009 - Manipulation

Activity

Endeffectors (passive (carabiner), active (claw))

Oct. 20, 2009 - Drive Types

Lecture: Drive Type Discussion

Activity: Build a Drive Base

Teams would pick one of the following bases to build for the "offroad challange".

  • Tank (2 Wheel)
  • Tank (4 Wheel)
  • Swerve / Ackerman

Lecture: Driving Two Motors in LabVIEW

Competition: Offroad Challenge

  1. Robots navigate rough terrain (simple height field made of plywood and molding)
  2. Bonus Round! Turn at the black strip for a quicker finish

Oct. 27, 2009 - Autonomous Control: Sensors

Lecture: Sensor Overview

Activity: Simple Sensor Input

Teams pick one of the following activities to complete

  • Display the output of a light sensor on a GUI
  • Display the output of a sound sensor on a GUI
  • Display the output of a ultrasonic sensor on a GUI
  • Display the output of a encoder on a GUI
  • Display the output of a NXT motor encoder on a GUI

Lecture: Encoders

Activity: Art Project

  1. Drive in a Square
  2. Draw the first letter of your team name

Nov. 03, 2009 - Autonomous Control II: LabVIEW Flow Control

Lecture: Flow Control Overview

Activity: Line Driver

  1. Drive till you see a line
  2. Bounce between lines

Lecture: Line Follower

Activity: Line Follower

Nov. 10, 2009 - FTC Competition Techniques

Develop Robot for FTC competition

Activity

Implement multiple sensor feedback in one system

Special Topics

The 2009 Special topics leg will focus on training college freshman, college students new to robotics, and high school seniors. Exceptions may be made for Mechanical Computer Aided design, Compact Rio I, and Compact Rio II classes.

Compact Rio I

Compact Rio II

Programming I

Crash course in C part I featuring the drunken sailor activity.

Programming II

Crash course in C part II featuring the drunken sailor activity.

Mechanical Computer Aided Design

Autodesk Inventor walk through.

Mechanical Design & Fabrication Practices

Design and fabrication pointers. Idea your fabrication capabilities drive your design methods.

Electrical Computer Aided Design

Use Eagle CAD to create a simple circuit we will have these boards run off and order parts.

Electrical Fabrication

Solder and test the custom board.

Computer Vision

A survey of computer vision and its roles in robotics. This will also feature demos from IGVC.

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