Somerset Berkley Regional High School

Robotics Engineering with LabView

Ethan McGuinness, Matt Cabral
1. Engineering Design
Central Concepts: Engineering design involves practical problem
solving, research, development, and invention/innovation, and requires
designing, drawing, building, testing, and redesigning. Students should
demonstrate the ability to use the engineering design process to solve a
problem or meet a challenge.
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1.1 Identify and explain the steps of the engineering design process: identify
the problem, research the problem, develop possible solutions, select the best
possible solution(s), construct prototypes and/or models, test and evaluate,
communicate the solutions, and redesign.
Identify the
problem

Research the
problem
Develop
solutions
Select the best
solution
Construct a
prototype

Test and
evaluate

Communicate
the
solutions
Redesign
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Step 1
Identify the
problem

The original problem was that we
needed to make our robot be able to
follow a line. what we needed to was
have sensor on our robot and make it
follow that line.





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Step 2
Research the
problem
Explore other options via the internet
Student: List the internet sites that were
helpful.
Site 1. Mr.CrokesRobotics.weebly.com
Site 2_____________________
Site 3 _____________________


What did you learn from your research?
A. we learned how to program the robot
and do other things to make it work.
B. learned how to build robot in the
way we needed it to.
C ______________________

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Step 3
Develop solutions
BRAINSTORM
COLLABORATION
Student : Share your ideas with your design team. List your ideas below.

1.make sure that your robot is completed the way that you wanted it to be.

1.have robot be able to move fluently not enough to get by.

1. ____________________________________-
Step 4
Select the best
Possible solution(s)
Design idea #1
Pro: we had what we needed to do what we were asked with all
the materials that we needed.
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Con: our design didnt work the first few times. so we had to
improve a lot. until we got what we needed.
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
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Design idea #2
Pro: Had what we needed to do project correctly and finally did it.
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Con: had to go through many prototypes to get to the right robot.
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________

Design idea #3
Pro: our robot was able to run smoothly and safely without doing
any physical damage.
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Con: took a long time to fix problems with our program.
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Step 5
Construct a prototype
Student: Build a robot with your nxt lego kit
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Use the next slide(s) for your digital pictures of your prototypes.

If the robot fails the design must be modified and retested.
Step 6 Test and evaluate
If the robot fails the design must be modified and retested.
* picture of your 1
st
prototype*
Does it work?
Ye
s
Stop
No
Modify the robot
retest
Example
Step 6 Test and evaluate
If the robot fails the design must be modified and retested.
* picture of your 2nd prototype*
Does it work?
Ye
s
Stop
No
Modify the robot
retest
Example
Step 6 Test and evaluate
If the robot fails the design must be modified and retested.
* picture of your 3rd prototype*
Does it work?
Ye
s
Stop
No
Modify the robot
retest
Example
Step 7
Communicate the solution(s)

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Provide the YouTube link of your video that shows
how your robot meets the challenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6yHlLSMfas
this is the video that shows our robot following the line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl-V6y1UsYY
this is the video of the robot inside the box pushing the cups out the border.
Redesign
If you could do this over again what would you do differently?
we would design the robot differently and more efficiently.
If we could do this project over again we would want to make
the robot smoother and more efficient to the to the job better
instead of doing just enough to get the job done.


What did you learn? with this project we learned how to
make a robot follow a line with a light sensor.
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