Robotics Engineer

Robotics Engineer

Choose any 3 of the following activities:

1. Find out about a career opportunity in robotics (education, training, and experience required) and explain why this profession might interest you.
2. Find out the following about the robotics industry:
   • The kinds of things robots can do and how robots are best used today.
   • The similarities and differences between remote control vehicles, telerobots, and autonomous robots.
   • 3 different methods robots move other than wheels or tracks. Describe when it would be appropriate to use each method.
3. Describe 3 of the 5 major fields of robotics (human-robot interface, mobility, manipulation, programming, sensors) and their importance to robotics development. Find pictures or at least 1 video to aid your description.
4. Design, build and test:
   1. Choose a task for the robot or robotic subsystem that you plan to build. Include sensor feedback and programming in the task. Document this information in your robot-engineering notebook.
   2. Design your robot. The robot design should use sensors and programming and have at least 2 degrees of freedom. Document the design in your robot-engineering notebook using drawings and a written description.
   3. Build and program a robot or robotic subsystem of your original design to accomplish the task you wrote in 4.1 above. Include the following in your robot-engineering notebook:
      • A sample of your program's source code
      • A flow chart of the desired steps to program your robot for accomplishing the task.
   4. Test your robot and record the results in your robot-engineering notebook. Include suggestions on how you could improve your robot, as well as pictures or sketches of your finished robot.