Resources

COBOL

COBOL Reference

IRobot

Manuels

- Command Module Owner’s Manual

- Command Module Example

- USB Driver.zip

WinAVR

Robotics Primer Workbook

BC Computer Labs

Potential Projects

- Robotics
- Robots in Education:
  - Did you ever think about how to use robots to promote education at different age level or for different subjects?
  - For example,
  - You can program robot to teach kindergarten kids English or Math;
  - You can design robot for teaching music;
  - You can do a survey through all those area and write a review.
  - etc.
- Robots in Our Daily Life:
  - Did you ever consider how to use robots to make your life better?
  - A good example is iRobot Vacuum Cleaning Robot.
  - You can use robot to solve little problems in your daily life and each small problem can be a good research topic.
- Learn and Program iRobot:
  - Focusing on individual algorithms in controlling iRobot, you can analyze an algorithm and try to improve it.
- Emotional Agents
  - Did you ever think about bringing some emotions to robot? or making robot more like a human being?
  - Did you ever think about how to build an emotionally intelligent agent or high EQ agent?
  - Program emotional agents, and evaluate their performance in the competition of a game.
  - Any good strategies in negotiation? Transform them to programs.
- Web Service and Distributed AI
  - Learn and design your own XML.
  - Learn SOAP and write your code with XML and SOAP.
  - Learn WSDL and design your own web service.
  - Study security in web service.
- Linux and Open Source Software
  - Build up experience with Linux system, and learn how to set up a web server.
  - Learn how to run a Linux server to support multiple users to work on same research project.